MANALAPAN, N.J. — Nicole and Jimmy LaCugna both grew up with a strong Catholic faith. Each attended religious education as children, married in a Catholic church and sent their first son, Nicholas, through a faith-based pre-K program.
“That is discrimination,” Nicole LaCugna said during an interview. “This should not affect his religion. It is absurd.” She said it causes him to have a “shutdown of the brain. If he gains a word he can lose it, if he gains a sound, he can forget it.” When Anthony reached first grade in the fall of 2018, Nicole LaCugna wanted to start him on the religious education track toward First Holy Communion but did not believe he could attend regular classes.
“I stressed that there is no way he could sit through a Mass, so they were going to let us come to a different Mass, with a different group, and he would be the only one who would receive Communion.” “This is very hard and upsetting to comprehend when we all are created by God and now our son is being shunned from the Catholic faith due to his inability to communicate,” his post stated. “This is something that I hope goes viral and these parties involved get their names called out for this disgraceful and disheartening act against a child who has a disability and wouldn’t even be able to create a sin because he is one of the sweetest and innocent little boy someone would ever meet.
The US Catholic Bishops Conference position on this is just the opposite.
Parents can wait till the boy more understand what communion means. Don't rush to do that.
Time to change religions! That's criminal.
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