What does the Bible say about illegiment Children?

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Can a person who converts to the faith but is a illegiment child recieve the Eucharist?
 
This question is so bizarre but I’ve occasionally seen it come up. Where does it come?
 
People need to be aware that there are great saints who were “illegitimate children”, including St. Kentigern (aka Mungo), St. Brigid of Ireland and St. Martin de Porres.
 
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Back you your question: “the bible…” You are Catholic now and, what the bible says is that we should always and everywhere turn to the Church. Jesus said so. Saint Paul said so. Beliefs must not be specifically written in the scriptures, as the bible - blessed and inspired as it is, was not and is not a complete record of God’s revelation.

Everything that God has revealed to man is contained within Church teaching.
 
" through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are ALL one in Christ Jesus."
GALATIANS 3:26-28
 
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People need to be aware that there are great saints who were “illegitimate children”, including St. Kentigern (aka Mungo), St. Brigid of Ireland and St. Martin de Porres.
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Indeed. As a friend of mine once said, there is no such thing as illegitimate children — only illegitimate parents. (And he was a pro-choice liberal politician who, sadly, went on to his eternal reward far too young.)
 
I am fascinated to know from where you got the idea that there could even be a question of illegitimate children being banned from Communion. It worries me that you even thought that this was possible. What did you think happened, for example, to all the children of unmarried mothers cared for by the Catholic Church or adopted by Catholic families? Or the bastards of the royal houses of Europe? Did you think that they might be excommunicated for life because of the circumstances of their birth? If so, on what possible grounds? It is almost as if you wonder whether illegitimate children are fully human beings or whether they are tainted for life with unforgivable sin.
 
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I am also not sure, but I am trying to work out what reasoning somebody may have gone through to think that it is even possible that the Church would ban illegitimate children from Communion. I think it is quite worrying that somebody would even ask whether the Church excludes a whole category of people from Communion for something over which they have no control. The implication is that merely being born illegitimate confers some kind of inferior or tainted status for life. It runs contrary to everything that the Church and the Christian faith stand for to imagine that God would deny the Body and Blood of His Son to a whole category of human beings for this reason. The OP is apparently not yet a Catholic, but if she (?) is asking this kind of question I worry that she is really a long way off understanding what the Church and the Christian faith more generally are about.
 
The child didnt sin It was the parrents. We are all born with original but we cant help what our parents do. So I guess I understand
 
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‘Illegitimacy’ is a civil law term, generally applicable to inheritance. You will not find the term, as applied to persons, anywhere in Canon Law.
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Nice thought but canons 1137 to 1140 deal with the legitimacy of children. I’m not sure that being illegitimate has any impact on anything in the Church anymore, but it did at one time, though never Communion AFAIK.

I’m not sure why they are still included unless it’s for inheritance laws in some countries.
 
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Modernity has its flaws. Among young people, many give birth just for themselves, and do not marry, many live with cohabitants.
The concept of illegitimateness is not what it was in past centuries.
 
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