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The Pastor of The Church of the Nativity, here in the Baltimore area, takes this Sunday’s reading from Nehemiah as an opportunity to offer some thoughts on the presence of small children in church<\/a>, noting that it was only “those children old enough to understand” who were present when Ezra read out the book of the Law to the people, and seeing this as a biblical precedent for the view that children too young to understand the readings or receive communion (and who might possibly be distracting to adults, including the homilist) are best not included in the liturgical assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Anscombe, one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century and mother of seven, had some rather different thoughts on this matter<\/a>. I have my own thoughts on this as well, but simply put this out there for PrayTell readers to weigh in on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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