That's what I'm saying. Not just if you are famous.
Thanks for clarifying. I would say that we are in agreement; it looked as if you implied that Joe Biden should get a pass because we can't or won't deny others. I am glad that is not the case.
Anyone that publicly supports sin, or if priest knows through the secrets of confession that continues in sin, should be denied communion for the good of their soul.
The priest can do that while maintaining the secrets of the confessional. In the Catholic Church we do not practice forced public shaming, the confessional is sacrosanct.
The major problem in the Church today, is the lack of education, aka catechesis, on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and teaching on calumny
Calumny, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., writes in his
Modern Catholic Dictionary, is "Injuring another person's good name by lying." As the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes (para. 2479), both calumny and the related sin of
detraction (revealing another's
sins to a third party who does not need to know about them)
destroy the
reputation and honor of one's neighbor. Honor is the social witness given to human dignity, and everyone enjoys a natural right to the honor of his name and reputation and to respect. Thus, detraction and calumny offend against the virtues of justice and charity.
While detraction can cause great damage through telling the truth, calumny is, if anything, even worse, because it involves the telling of a lie (or of something that one believes to be a lie). You can engage in detraction without intending to do damage to the person you are discussing, but calumny is by definition malicious. The point of calumny is, at the very least, to lower the opinion one person has of another person.
