Sacrilege

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Sacrilege is in general the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege. It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things.

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Catholic teaching

Many manuals on moral and sacramental theology likewise confirm that "Unworthy treatment of the Eucharist is the worst of sacrileges."[8] "They who make a sacrilegious Communion," writes St. Cyril, "receive satan and Jesus Christ into their hearts — satan, that they may let him rule, and Jesus Christ, that they may offer Him in sacrifice as a Victim to satan."

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