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"I have not yet been able to verify this, but if Communion was withheld, I am sure it was not for public disagreement but because the priest knows that person to be in state of unrepentent sin."
Well that's a certainty without any proffered evidence. You know something about the state of this person's soul?
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"That is a perfectly acceptable reason for a priest to withhold Communion."
That raises an interesting question. If a person is in a state of mortal sin, the priest knows it, but the rest of the congregation does not, is the priest obliged to withhold Communion, and thereby publish the state of the soul, or to give Holy Communion so as not to "out" the sinner? Sorry, but I'm not willing to automatically accept your opinion on the matter.