Isn’t the Church becoming like the Taliban, excommunicating divorced second wives and homosexuals?

QUESTION: Isn’t the Church becoming like the Taliban, excommunicating divorced second wives and homosexuals? After all, they too can love God with all their hearts, so why are they denied Communion?

ANSWER: excommunication and the inability to receive communion are two different things. Communion with the Church does not occur only through Holy Communion, although it is this, undoubtedly, that is the pinnacle of the believer’s communion with the Church. The inability to receive Communion does not mean excommunication from the Church.