Other Cases in Which Canon Law Mandates Denial of Access To Communion
Exclusion by canon law from access to Communion is not limited to the cases mentioned in canon 915. For instance, canon 842 §1 declares: "A person who has not received baptism cannot be admitted validly to the other sacraments."
It is also deemed appropriate to consider denying Communion "where someone is trying to use the Eucharist to make a political statement", and Communion has been refused to activists of the Rainbow Sash Movement on the grounds that it has never been acceptable to use the reception of Communion as a manifest act of protest.
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