Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gab@mtuxo.att.com (Gabriel Bergamo) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Convert Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 05:41:39 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu After my conversion to the Protestant faith I attended the funeral of a close friend of mine in my former Catholic church. The priest saw me before the Mass and came up to me and told me that I couldn't take Communion in his church! When I asked him why he just left with no explaination. Can anyone tell me why not? I am still a Christian and beleive in the same God. This was one of the reasons I converted, a cold indifferent church. In any Protestant church all can take Communion. Another question, why do Catholics beleive that Communion is actually the body of Christ. [Actually there are Protestant churches that practice closed communion. I'll let our Catholic readers respond to the rest of the posting... --clh]