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[quote=Anonymous]I'm just googling if a non-Catholic can receive communion.

The situation happened last spring.  Our DD went to the Catholic school and we were very involved and went to church.  Our priest allowed it at her First Holy Communion; told me ahead of time.  I recall the going to church regularly was a part of that decision, as was the belief in transubstantiation (sp?).  Here is the probable real answer:…we lived in Los Angeles.  LA is not as strict as around here, that could be part of it.

Anyways, here's something I found:

There are five conditions set down in canon law by which a baptized Christian who is not Roman Catholic can receive with us. Like all church law these conditions are meant to be interpreted through the lens of charity.

Two of these conditions are that the person first must share our Catholic faith in the meaning of the Eucharist, and they must lack normal access to a minister of their own faith tradition. Think of the widow of a Catholic at his funeral, or a devout lady who is gravely ill in a nursing home whose minister never visits, the prisoner isolated from the church community, or a soldier who worships at Mass with his or her comrades on the eve of a dangerous mission. In each case the canonical provisions suggest that the desire to receive sometimes trumps our Catholics-only policy.

But at this point in ecumenical relations, each situation has to be handled individually, normally in consultation with a priest, and ideally in dialogue with the bishop. This remains a pastoral problem that is under constant investigation and study.

http://www.uscatholic.org/glad-you-asked/2008/11/can-a-non-catholic-receive-communion[/quote]

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