[Wuli]

Sorry, Methodist Pastor, you are not Catholic so your vote doesn’t count in Catholic Churches.

I think there was a time in Mehodist Churches when that Pastor would not have have been able to be a Methodist Pastor. That was when taking communion went with the acceptance of what communion meant. It was not a “greeting” to believers and non-believers alike.

In Catholicism that fundamental belief translates into other corallary beliefs in Catholicism. In that context, communion in a Roman Catholic church is really for Roman Catholic believers, not those who openly express denial and opposition to Catholic beliefs.

[Albion Wilde]

there was a time in Mehodist Churches when that Pastor would not have have been able to be a Methodist Pastor. That was when taking communion went with the acceptance of what communion meant. It was not a “greeting” to believers and non-believers alike.

Some friends of mine were on a call committee recently interviewing prospective new pastors. During the interview, one of the women pastors told a cute anedote about how a child had been hungry and whiny during a meeting that his mother had brought him along to, so the woman pastor gave the child some of the communion wafer. Thankfully, she did not get the job. Women are an abomination as head pastors of congregations.