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  2. Salvation of infants - Wikipedia

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    St. Augustine believed that children who died unbaptized were damned. [1] In his Letter to Jerome, he wrote, [2]. Likewise, whosoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that sacrament shall be made alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration, and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in ...

  3. Infant communion - Wikipedia

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    The practice of allowing young children to receive communion has fallen into disfavor in the Latin-Rite of the Catholic Church. Latin-Rite Catholics generally refrain from infant communion and instead have a special ceremony when the child receives his or her First Communion, usually around the age of seven or eight years old.

  4. Sacramental matter and form - Wikipedia

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    However, the Catholic Encyclopedia states this conceptual view of the sacraments was already present in Augustine of Hippo's writings. [ 1 ] The Catechism of the Council of Trent explains this concept this way: "every Sacrament consists of two things; 'matter,' which is called the element, and 'form,' which is commonly called 'the word. ' " [ 2 ]

  5. Ecclesiastical response to Catholic sexual abuse cases

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    In June 2002, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) unanimously approved a Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People that pledged the Catholic Church in the U.S. to providing a "safe environment" for all children in Church-sponsored activities. To accomplish this, the U.S. bishops made a commitment to develop ...

  6. Religion and children - Wikipedia

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    The creation–evolution controversy, especially the status of creation and evolution in public education, is a debate over teaching children the origin and evolution of life, mostly in conservative regions of the United States. However, evolution is accepted by the Catholic Church and is a part of the Catholic Catechism. [citation needed]

  7. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    While the Church itself is the universal sacrament of salvation, [21] [22] the sacraments of the Catholic Church in the strict sense [23] are seven sacraments that "touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian's life of faith". [24] "The Church affirms ...

  8. Thomistic sacramental theology - Wikipedia

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    Matrimony, then, in that it consists in the union of a husband and wife purposing to generate and educate offspring for the worship of God, is a sacrament of the Church; hence, also, a certain blessing on those marrying is given by the ministers of the Church.

  9. Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors - Wikipedia

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    Pope Francis's chirograph for the Institution of a Pontifical Commission for the Protection of minors (22 March 2014) states: [2]. The aim of the Commission is to promote the protection of the dignity of minors and vulnerable adults, using the forms and methods, consonant with the nature of the Church, which they consider most appropriate, as well as through their cooperation with individuals ...