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Communicatio in Sacris: The Roman Catholic Church against Intercommunion with non-Catholics

Communicatio in Sacris:

The Roman Catholic Church against Intercommunion with non-Catholics


                                                   

                   Pope Pius XI
       (1857-1939 A.D.) declares:

 

“So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of   non-Catholics.”

(The Papal Encyclical Mortalium Animos, Art. 10, Jan. 6, 1928).






St. John Damascene (676-749 A.D.) boldly asserts:


 

“With all our strength, therefore, let us never receive communion from or grant it to heretics; ‘Give not that which is holy unto dogs, saith the Lord, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,’ (Matt. 7:6) ; lest we become partakers in their dishonor and condemnation.”

(Patrologia Graeca, vol. 94, col. 1149, 1152, 1153. Also: De Fide Orthodoxa—Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV, Chapter XIII).

 

 

 

 

 

Roman Catholics can never receive the Sacraments at the hands of the Heterdox!


Pope Innocent III
(1160-1216 A.D.) declares:




“The canons have established that we should not hold communion after their death with those with whom we did not communicate during their lifetime, and that all those should be deprived of ecclesiastical burial who were separated from the unity of the Church, and at the moment of death were not reconciled thereunto.”

 

     (In chapter xii, de  sepulturis,                lib. III, tit. Xxviii).

 

 

 

St. Bonaventure (1221-1274 A.D.) writes:


                              

 

“Once these conditions [intention of Orders] are present, the sacraments may be conferred by either the good or the wicked, the faithful or the heretical, within the Church or outside it: but within the Church, they are conferred both in fact and in effect, while outside it, although conferred in fact, they are not effective.”

 

(The Beviloquium, Part VI, Chapter 5, Article 1; See also: The Works of Bonaventure, translated by José de Vinck Docteur en Droit of Louvian University, Published by St. Anthony Guild Press, New Jersey, 1962, pp. 237-238).