Is there a catholic teaching or guidance on whether it is OK to visit and sleep over at someone's house who is not in a valid marriage? Can this act show the approval of their marriage and create a sin of scandal? For example: validly married couple with their children visiting grandma who is invalidly married with her partner(from a Catholic perspective)?

The singer Madonna Louise Ciccone has stated in various interviews that she's been excommunicated by the Catholic Church *multiple times*. > The best-selling female recording artist then revealed that she had > been excommunicated from the church three times. Corden, in disbelief, > questioned whether or not she was serious but she assured him that it > was true. > > **"The Vatican has excommunicated me,"** she said before the two of them > started belting out her hit song, "Papa Dont Preach" off of her third > studio album released in 1986, True Blue. > > Madonna Talks Being Excommunicated by Church, Desire to Be Nun on James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke' and > “I’ve been excommunicated from the Catholic Church three times,” > Madonna joked to the crowd in Philadelphia. “It shows the Vatican > cares – deeply.” > > Watch Madonna Dedicate a Song to the 'Popey-Wopey' (A.K.A. Pope Francis) **Has she formally ever been excommunicated on *multiple* occasions (or if not, why does she think she has)?**

A recent article in the National Catholic Register reported an exchange between Mike Allen on HBO and Cardinal Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development: > “Do you have any question that President Biden is a Catholic in good standing?” Allen asked. “Should he be served communion?” > >Cardinal Turkson responded: “If you say somebody cannot receive Communion, you are basically doing a judgment that you are in a state of sin.” > >“It sounds like you don’t think that should happen in the case of President Biden,” said the interviewer. > >“No,” said Cardinal Turkson. “You know, if, you know, a priest who’s distributing Communion sees — unexpected all of a sudden somebody he knows to have committed murder, he’s meant to protect their dignity and the respect of that person.” > >“So it’s for extreme cases?” > >“Yeah. Those, for extreme cases, okay?” Cardinal Turkson replied. https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cardinal-turkson-talks-biden-holy-communion-on-hbo I can't really follow the logic here, whether or not priests are supposed to withhold Communion to murderers to protect their dignity or not distribute Communion for the sake of the murdered person, but the Cardinal appears to be saying that making a decision to withhold Communion is only for extreme circumstances. Does that jibe with Canon law and the way things are practically done in the Catholic Church? It's not like we have a list of sinners at Mass like a list of people who pass bad checks at a diner. But I was under the impression that scandal was one of the things that should rouse the suspicions of a priest and to distribute Communion to a public heretic like Joe Biden would be inappropriate, in the way that distributing Communion to a private sinner like myself wouldn't be scandalous. If I were denied absolution, like I've heard St. Padre Pio would do after reading souls, wouldn't that be a more private scandal? Either way, it seems like an untenable situation, there are clear guidelines for the laity, but what do priests do in response to the laity not following the rules?

We read in 1 Cor 10: 27-29 how St. Paul takes a liberal view on the culinary habits of the faithful : > If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. But St. Paul goes on to state in Verse 29 and 30: > For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of that for which I give thanks? What St. Paul advises the faithful in Verses 27 -29 (first half), is that one should not create scandal for a man of simple faith, by eating the food offered to pagan gods . But in Verses 29 (second half) and 30, he appears to be saying that one should develop one's own conscience which is not guided by that of another person. My question therefore is: **According to Catholic Church, is there an apparent contradiction between the intent of St. Paul in 1 Cor 10: 27-29 vis-a-vis that in verses 29-30? How does the Catholic Church explain the contradiction?**