[broadsword]

On a more positive note Communion is NOT required to be saved.

"Uhless you eat my body and drink my blood you will have no life in you." --Jesus

The situation with this 8 year old is a simple example of rituals taken to an extreme and forgetting what the Bible teaches.

The Catholic Church wrote, defined and owns the (NT) Bible. Without Pope St. Damasus, who reigned in the 300s, you do-it-yourself, anything-goes-according-to-my-on-the-spot personal-interpretation-of-what-I-don't-understand, I am my own god types would have no Bible to misinterpret.

[tjwmason]

The Catholic Church wrote, defined and owns the (NT) Bible. Without Pope St. Damasus, who reigned in the 300s, you do-it-yourself, anything-goes-according-to-my-on-the-spot personal-interpretation-of-what-I-don't-understand, I am my own god types would have no Bible to misinterpret.

Very well put. Of course the Holy Ghost guided this saintly Pope, and continues to guide the Bride of Christ, and our Holy Mother Church to this very day.