The senseless proposal of the German Bishops and why only Catholic may be admitted to Eucharistic Communion
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They are also heretics, not just schismatics, already the Christians mentioned in §3, not only those mentioned in §4, del Can. 844. All these, when they receive the sacraments lawfully from Catholic ministers, the Canon considers it NON-CATHOLIC, either because it calls them “membership” of fully sacramental non-Catholic churches or calls of “own” belonging to ecclesial communities not fully sacramental, and because §5 supposes them to be subject to their respective non-Catholic religious authorities. The Canon does NOT require the prior conversion of all of them to Catholicism as a condition for receiving these sacraments, but it requires that they have the Catholic faith LIMITED TO these sacraments: in the case of §3 this faith is tacitly presumed by virtue of the sacramental situation of the churches to which it belongs, while in the case of §4 this faith must be manifested by the individual applicants, since it lacks the ecclesial communities to which it belongs. In the end, all of them the Canon tacitly presumes them in good faith as to the heresy and schism in which they objectively pour (invalidating the points 5 e 6 of the Declaratio del Convegno “Catholic church, where are you going?”).