Why can't Protestants & Catholics have communion togather if they are both Christian?

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Answer 1

Catholics believe that the bread and wine are the actual body and blood of Christ Jesus. Protestants believe it is only a symbol.

Answer 2

>>Why can't Protestants & Catholics have communion togather if they are both Christian?<<

Protestants do not believe the Jesus is truly present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity under the appearance of bread and wine, so admitting them to communion in the Catholic Church would be casting pearls before swine. Catholics cannot receive Protestant communion because it is nothing but a piece of bread, and to pretend otherwise would be a lie.

"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself." -- 1 Corinthians 11:27-29

Answer 3

Because in a Catholic Mass, they have the Real Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Protestants do not believe in the Real Presence, but rather only celebrate a commemoration of Him, which is a totally different thing. Receiving Holy Communion in a Catholic Mass is one of the Seven Sacraments - God's channels of grace through the Church - which are exclusive to members of the holy religion.

Answer 4

Through the authority Jesus gave to his church, the work of the priest, and the power of Holy Spirit, ordinary bread and wine is transformed into the real and substantial body and blood of Jesus Christ, at every Catholic Mass.

Protestants variously disagree on every single one of the above truths, and many, many more.

For the most part, they also maintain that holy communion is merely a symbolic offering, that remains ordinary bread and wine.

They also disagree on matters like the forgiveness of sins, which is critical to worthy reception of the authentic Holy Eucharist.

For these and many other valid reasons, it's not possible for Catholics and Protestants to particpate together, in the same communion.

Answer 5

Depends on who's giving the communion. Catholic communion is only for people who have been confirmed into the Catholic faith (you have to take classes and everything). I'm not sure whether Protestant communion is for other faiths as well or not.

Answer 6

Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

Source(s):

Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Additional Reading

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)
Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Answer 7

In Catholic Churches it is true that only Catholics can take communion. However many Protestant denominations allow all faiths to take communion.

Answer 8

Catholics believe that the Eucharist is is actually the Body and Blood of Jesus ("This IS my body....this IS my blood); Protestants only believe in the symbolism of it. Martin Luther (the father of Protestantism) believed in the Real Presence and insisted that it was the devil who makes people believe that the word IS now menas "symbolize" or "represents".

Answer 9

Well, they seem to be different. Catholics have a different method than protestants and I think the catholic Bible differs from the "Bible" (Whatever version)

Answer 10

because Protestants may not agree with the idea. remember, they protested against Catholicism.