Gerald Augustinus, of The Cafeteria is Closed, made me aware of the following:

The Bishop of Linz (Austria) didn’t give Communion to a Lutheran pastor present at Mass. News? Apparently.

Said the Lutheran pastor:

I was not surprised, because the bishop cannot act differently, if he wants to follow canon law. Personally, he might have been able to act differently, but in order to do that he would have had to ‘jump over his shadow’ [roughly, 'get over himself']. It was painful to see what the situation is like when push comes to shove.

Of course the bishop acted correctly, when he denied the host. But faith is much more than rules of conduct. Love of one’s neighbor, tolerance, understanding, tact. Bishop Schwarz lacked all that. He could have performed an act of humanity, instead he came out for faithfulness to Rome. Between that lie worlds.

According to the doctrine of the Faith, only Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox are allowed to receive Communion in a Catholic Mass because they are the only ones who continuously believe in the Transubstantiation and the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Congrats to the Bishop of Linz for sticking to his guns!