[Mrs. Don-o]

Canon 915:

Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.

The Apostolic Signatura already clarified --- years ago, in fact--- that "are not to be" means "MUST NOT BE" and that this is binding on the person distributing Holy Communion.

But these bishops and cardinals think they are above the law.

Turning an offender away from Communion is not just to be a "persuasive" gesture. It's to prevent Eucharistic Sacrilege, because

1. sacrilege is offensive to Almighty God
2. sacrilege brings guilt upon the minister of the Sacrament (it's a sin for the bishop, priest or deacon)
3. the impenitent sinner himself is to be shielded from incurring multiple mortal sins, AND
4. the Catholic faithful, and the community at large, are to be shielded from the sickening sight of seeing Our Lord openly profaned.

If Cupich had one iota of love for God, for the sinner, for his own priests or his own flock, he would firmly enforce 915. But he either has no love in him, or he just does not give a damn.

[ebb tide]

Remember, it was the homosexual, Mr. Teddy McCarrick, and his VP, Wilton Gregory, who suppressed Cardinal Ratzinger's firm instruction to refuse Holy Communion to baby-killers:

The Download—Lying Cardinals

McCarrick not only hid the memo, however — he lied about it.

And it is now known, that Mr. McCarrick easily solicited Pope Francis to elevate Cupcake Cupich to where he is today.

[DoodleBob]

So, let me get this straight...Cupich locked Latin Mass parishioners out of their church to force them into an English/new order mass, but he knowingly gives communion to pro-abortion politicians.

I think he gives a damn about remaking Christ's Church in the Cardinal's image, he knows EXACTLY what he's doing, is wanting in love, and is perhaps part of that smoke Pope Paul VI mentioned.

When the radicals in the 1960s, punks in the 1970s, new wavers in the 1980s, and grungers in the 1990s came along, you could spot them from a mile away. The radicals in the 21st century look like the establishment...because they ARE the establishment.

[Biggirl]

Sadly it is hardly enforced.