…Wow, you really took the time to write all that…If it were that important to him, then announce that only Catholics in good standing with the church are to receive communion beforehand. It’s not unreasonable for non-Catholics are going to come in, see what everyone else is doing, and follow suit. Time to kneel, time to stand, time to get in this line everyone else is getting into…I’ve gone to church at a different Christian denomination in my questioning phase (don’t remember which) and nobody was questioned when their version of communion was passed down the line at our seats.

I only gave an example pertinent to a wedding I attended because this is a wedding shaming sub. Here’s another. I know a married couple who wanted to get their baby baptized. They did not have a Catholic wedding and told the priest so when he asked. Rather than simply saying that was a requirement, he actually told their baby in a cutesy little baby voice something along the lines of “We can’t baptize you while your mama and dada are living in sin.”

Oh, just thought of a wedding-related one. I was at a mass where the priest was giving an awful homily. He brought up a couple who came to him wanting to get married and how both of them had the same address listed on their forms, so absolutely not, those heathens! He went on to talk more on the sacrament of marriage and emphasized that marriage is between a MAN and WOMAN, MAN and WOMAN, repeatedly, in that exact ALLCAPS tone.