I like Ross's argument that "the stranger must be welcomed and offered the best of what you have… and if the Body and Blood of Christ is not the best we have, what is?"
There's my casuistic argument: "If a person who receives the consecrated bread and wine happens to be unbaptized, then what he receives simply is not Holy Communion." True, that gets you into tricky questions of when the bread and wine become ... whatever it is they become; but on that question, Alice's opinion is no more provable, nor any more refutable, than Bob's or Carol's or Dave's.
I like Ross's argument that
I like Ross's argument that "the stranger must be welcomed and offered the best of what you have… and if the Body and Blood of Christ is not the best we have, what is?"
There's my casuistic argument: "If a person who receives the consecrated bread and wine happens to be unbaptized, then what he receives simply is not Holy Communion." True, that gets you into tricky questions of when the bread and wine become ... whatever it is they become; but on that question, Alice's opinion is no more provable, nor any more refutable, than Bob's or Carol's or Dave's.