Does Catholic doctrine allow a Catholic to receive Communion in a Lutheran Church?

Question

Please, serious answers only. A priest I know has allowed a member of his congregation to do so.

Answer 1

No, Lutherans do not have valid orders, therefore their Eucharist is not valid. Here are the Canon laws on the matter (emphasis is mine):

Can. 844 §1. Catholic ministers administer the sacraments licitly to Catholic members of the Christian faithful alone, who likewise receive them licitly from Catholic ministers alone, without prejudice to the prescripts of §§2, 3, and 4 of this canon, and ⇒ can. 861, §2.

§2. Whenever necessity requires it or true spiritual advantage suggests it, and provided that danger of error or of indifferentism is avoided, the Christian faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister are permitted to receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick from non-Catholic ministers in whose Churches these sacraments are VALID.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2T.HTM

Answer 2

I am not certain about the Catholic doctrine. However, even if the Catholic doctrine were to allow it (which I doubt it does), the Lutheran doctrine of closed communion would not.

The Catholic church believes in transubstantiation. This means that the bread and wine are physically turned into the body and blood of Christ and will never be bread and wine again. The Lutheran church believes in real presence. The bread is the body, while it remains bread and the wine is blood while it remains wine. Some other reform churches believe in representation. The bread and wine are symbols which represent the body and blood of Christ, however there are still bread and wine.

Answer 3

Absolutely not.

Priests are not always right ... and no priest has the right to make those types of decisions.

The relevant canon is 844, but the whole canon is rather long, so I won't walk you through all of it. Here's the relevant part for your purposes:

§2. Whenever necessity requires it or true spiritual advantage suggests it, and provided that danger of error or of indifferentism is avoided, the Christian faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister are permitted to receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick from non-Catholic ministers in whose Churches (primarily Orthodox Churches) these sacraments are valid.

Unfortunately, (Lutheran) Protestants did not retain valid holy orders and thus did not retain a valid Eucharist. Therefore, Catholics cannot receive this sacrament in (Lutheran) Protestant churches.

Answer 4

No, we are not allowed to. Why? Because we Catholics recognize Christ's soul and divinity in the Eucharist, it is the most Holy of Sacraments.

Also, one must remember that Protestant communion does not, even if they claim it does, become the true body and blood of Christ. It is not transubstansiated , because only a Priest, who has been ordained by Christ, the high Priest, through the action of the Bishop, namely the laying on of hands, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit can actually carry out this miracle. Protestant ministers do not have this, because they are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.

Answer 5

Sometimes the religions get too competitive. It still represents the body of Christ, doesn't it? How could where a person received it make a difference?

Answer 6

No we can attend ,but we're not supposed to take communion from any church other than our own. Your a liar cabron.

Answer 7

no,only CATHOLIC CHURCHES have the REAL communion. all the rest of us have to suffer because we're not worthy.
when jesus gave us communion,he didnt ask if we were catholic,or jew,or babtist.

Answer 8

No.
Peace and blessings!