I believe this situation would be covered by Canon 844.4 Elise B.
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CIC 844.4 states: "If the danger of death is present or if, in the judgment of the diocesan bishop or conference of bishops, some other grave necessity urges it, Catholic ministers administer these same sacraments licitly also to other Christians not having full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and who seek such on their own accord, provided that they manifest Catholic faith in respect to these sacraments and are properly disposed." The parallel canon in the CCEO 671.4 has the identical content. However, the question does remain: would would a weekday, non-festive Divine Liturgy (2 June 2006), constitute a "grave neccesity" urging a prominent Anglican's theologian's public reception of the Eucharist from the hand of a Catholic Bishop? Are there any canonists reading that could shed some light on this?
Mons. Hlib Lonchyna is not the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Lviv, where Milbank received communion.
In this case, in fact, there is no objective grave spiritual need for the eternal salvation of Milbank to receive the Eucharist from a Uniate Bishop at a weekday Divine Liturgy during a ecumenical conference! (cf. 45, Ecclesia de Eucharistia).
For all you RCs who love quoting Vatican II: "Divine law forbids any common worship which would damage the unity of the Church, or involve formal acceptance of falsehood or the danger of deviation in the faith, of scandal, or of indifferentism” (Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, 26). Orientalium Ecclesiarum, 26.
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Elise B.
The parallel canon in the CCEO 671.4 has the identical content. However, the question does remain: would would a weekday, non-festive Divine Liturgy (2 June 2006), constitute a "grave neccesity" urging a prominent Anglican's theologian's public reception of the Eucharist from the hand of a Catholic Bishop?
Are there any canonists reading that could shed some light on this?
In this case, in fact, there is no objective grave spiritual need for the eternal salvation of Milbank to receive the Eucharist from a Uniate Bishop at a weekday Divine Liturgy during a ecumenical conference! (cf. 45, Ecclesia de Eucharistia).
For all you RCs who love quoting Vatican II: "Divine law forbids any common worship which would damage the unity of the Church, or involve formal acceptance of falsehood or the danger of deviation in the faith, of scandal, or of indifferentism” (Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, 26). Orientalium Ecclesiarum, 26.
It is the same dear Bishop introducing Milbank to the conference prior to the Divine Liturgy.