Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Capital Sins and Capital Virtues Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 07:12:46 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu > I believe closed communion is now fairly rare, but I could be wrong. > I've certainly never run into it (not even in Catholic churches, > interestingly enough). Well, it's rather difficult to determine who is a Catholic and who is not when distributing communion, unless that person is known to the minister, announces their particular confession somehow, or is obviously unfamiliar with what to do (difficult to imagine for most Christians who celebrate a communion service.) Until this topic had been discussed on the net this past year, the "problem" had never occurred to me. In Catholic Churches, the presumption is, if you're standing in line to receive the Eucharist, you're Catholic. Whether you are or not is a different matter. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu