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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a Catholic family, and if I were attending the funeral of my sibling's little child, I would just take communion even though I don't believe.

I would consider it my duty to do WHATEVER I could to minimize stress to everybody in the family.  I would think taking communion and keeping my mouth shut about it were the LEAST I could do.  I can't imagine being so self-absorbed as to make a thread about myself and whether I should take communion at my tiny niece's funeral.

If they wanted you to stand in a circle and worship the moon goddess, that would be your compassionate responsibility to do it, OP.  These parents lost their four year old!

If there is a god, I think he would also want you to just shut up and take the communion, if there was even a modicum of a chance that not doing so would cause stress to anyone else present, or divert an iota of thought/attention away from the memory of this poor little girl.[/quote]

What it seems that you don't know, is that in Catholicism, it's a sin to take communion without being in a state of grace, which means having been to confession recently and not having committed any mortal sins (like leaving Catholicism - the "one true faith") in the meantime.[/quote]

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