Church Must Enforce Teaching on Reception of the Eucharist, Archbishop says
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the newly appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, said the Church has the right to tell someone who persists in grave public sin that they may not receive Holy Communion, and that this should be regarded not as discipline, but as an act of mercy for both the individual and the community of believers.
