Communion Waiver

Although the Church of Rome has many uses for young children, some more spiritual than others, the employment of an altar-girl in serving Holy Communion has precipitated a liturgical horror in northern Italy. The parish priest called upon the child, who apparently looked less tainted by original sin than anyone else present, because he found himself without a bishop, priest or deacon handy to assist. Local dupes were aghast at the blasphemous depravity of it, and a Catholic blog whose title translates loosely as Keep Jesus Latin solemnly demanded that the bishop intervene and cleanse the parish of the moral taint resulting from the improper use of a child. The priest, who so far has merely been told not to repeat the offence, complained that it was as if he had killed someone, rather than merely presided over a bit of ritualised cannibalism.