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Subject: Re: In Communion with Rome?
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Cathy Johnston wrote:

    So, for example, a Greek family who are members of a uniate Church but
    live in an isolated village with only a Greek Orthodox parish would be
    allowed (indeed obligated) to go to Mass at the Orthodox parish and
    receive Communion, although they would be expected to worship in a
    uniate parish whenever possible.
    
The Church has never allowed this in the Latin rite in the past, much
less obliged it.  It's called "communicatio in sacris" (Communion in
sacred things) in Latin rite canon law, and used to carry an
excommunication.

I admit to unfamiliarity with Eastern canon law, but highly doubt that
something traditionally meriting an excommunication in the West is
obliged in the East.

Joe Buehler