A PAPAL ENCYCLICAL
CHILDREN'S.FIRST COMMUNION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received October 4, 10.35 p.m. Rome, October 4. The correspondent of the Catholic Herald states that the Papal decree relative to children receiving, their first communion at the age of seven years, has been misunderstood. The Pope only counsels ■that the children should receive communion at as early an age as possible, leaving to their guardians and father confessors whether their faculties are sufficiently developed to justify the reception of the sacraments of penance and eucharist. . .A Papil decree was issued a few weeks i?o fixini? the age for children's first communion ait about seven years of age. It was believed that the Vatican at implanting instruction before the children are submitted to the alleged corrupting influence of the State schools. A large proportion of th.9 French clergy were stated to bdieve it impossible to >nake a child of seven understand the difference between, communion bread and ordinary bread.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 151, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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157A PAPAL ENCYCLICAL Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 151, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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