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For an action to be a sin, one has to have some control over it. Sin = doing (or failing to do) something one knows is wrong, sinful on purpose. Kids who ask parents, relatives, and are denied can't be culpable. That behavior is not in their control.

I don't think anyone is arguing elsewise.

The question is, do we admit someone to Communion for the sake of a ceremony and a photo op, thereby imposing on that child a sure future of spiritual starvation?

I don't think anyone is arguing elsewise.

I don't know - see #445.

The question is, do we admit someone to Communion for the sake of a ceremony and a photo op, thereby imposing on that child a sure future of spiritual starvation?

Good question. I don't know what the best answer is. I think about it every year while discussing with my second graders their future reception of the Sacrament of Confession and their upcoming Holy Communion. Too many of the parents think that their childs second confession can be 14 mos after the first when the kids make their First Holy Communion. (The Religious Ed program provides opportunity for the sacrament 2 or 3 times during our school year.) And that same laxness is evident with Holy Communion, too.