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Canon 915, one of the canons in the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, forbids the administration of Holy Communion to those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, or who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin:
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.[1]
The corresponding canon in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which binds members of the Eastern Catholic Churches, reads: "The publicly unworthy are to be kept from the reception of the Divine Eucharist".[2][3]
- ^ Canon 915 in the English translation of the Canon Law Society of America
- ^ Raymond Burke, "Canon 915: The discipline regarding the denial of Holy Communion to those obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin" in Periodica de re canonica, vol. 96 (2007), p,. 3-58
- ^ Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 712