By posting this news item I will probably get a few critical comments, especially with the CNA link and the use of the term “full communion” for the conversion of baptized Protestants. So, let me state simply that I do not believe that there is any such thing as “partial” communion with the Catholic Church for validly baptized heretics. I am sure that everyone reading this knows exactly what a formal heretic is. The Faith can only be held integrally, reject one dogma explicitly and there is no supernatural virtue of Faith. Ergo, no partial communion. Communion, too, must be integral. Those in mortal sin, who do not reject the Faith, are not living members of the Church, but they are still members, dead in sin, but in union with the Church as members. The modification is not one of fullness in contrast with partiality, but rather one of a soul that is living in Christ as opposed to dead in sin.
CNA: Thousands of new Catholics were baptized and thousands more Christians were received into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter vigil last weekend. Read more on this here.
