  I agree with Larry's post, and am not going to bother to nitpick to find little faults. An interesting issue he raises is the mitigation of culpability by ignorance. Suppose that the family of a murder victim wants the murder to be put to death, because their sense of justice is one that includes what the Church would call vengeance. You could just say that the family doesn't know any better. And a politician who advocates the death penalty on this basis might be similarly ignorant. It seems that a way to avoid, or at least to minimize, committing scandal is just to not pay attention to the Church. Another problem is the fact that receiving communion is a binary--you either get it or you don't--but the Church (or Larry, at least) will allow that culpability has gradations. Just how culpable do you have to be to be denied communion? I'm not a scholar of the Church, so maybe it's already clearly spelled this out. Andrew, Larry, Joe, your thoughts? 
