in the Baltimore Sun

Keeler said in an interview this week that it was not the business of bishops to choose who receives Communion. Instead, he said he supports church policy that individual Catholics should determine whether they are in a state of grace with the church before partaking in the Eucharist, the heart of Catholic worship.

“Our position is … Catholics have a responsibility to examine their own conscience and see if they are in a state that is appropriate for the reception of the sacrament,” he said. “We don’t need bishops to get into the act.”