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Question of the day: Can non-Catholics take communion at mass?
Related question: What if you are directly descended from someone who was excommunicated? Would taking communion be sacriligeous?

Going to a wedding tonight...

And on the subject of churches, here's my new & improved terrarium:

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Not only can you -- if you're in the wedding party, they make you. (And if you refuse, they bless you instead.)

My boyfriend, Ariel Goldberg, took communion when he was a groomsman for his high school roommate.

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Question of the day: Can non-Catholics take communion at mass?

As a lapsed Catholic whose uncle is still a bishop, I can say with confidence that the party line is that if you're not Catholic, they don't want you anywhere near the transubstantiated body of the Son of God. My wife is Episcopalian, which to me is just another dialect of the same language, and in the past it's been made clear to her and me that it's not kosher (as it were) to take a mouthful of the Vaticanized Lord . . . that being said, there is usually a "don't ask don't tell" aspect to such blasphemy . . .

~j.z.

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Another lapsed Catholic says: Technically no, but it's not like you'll get called out on it if you do. Just remember to say "Amen" when they give it to you, and not "Thank you." ;-)

This from a former altar server who used to flip unconsecrated hosts into the air and catch them in her mouth, like they were Pringles or M&Ms or something. Hey, it wasn't like they were Jesus at the time.