Jan
20
Church refuses boy with Down's syndrome Holy Communion
In its letter, the diocese said Denum had “limited concentration, doesn’t really access the RE curriculum and does not enjoy going to Mass”.
It said if Denum took his first Holy Communion when he was “better placed to understand” it would “enrich his whole experience”.
Pretty sensible, I would have thought. Faith is (meant to be) a personal thing, and I’m not sure you can make a commitment to any sort of religion if you have little real understanding of what’s going on — anything else is indoctrination by definition.
The real WTF here is that following the outcry, if I read the subtitles on BBC Breakfast News this morning, Leeds Diocese have capitulated and changed their policy.
