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Did you know that Roman Catholic canon law requires the communion wafer be made of wheat and must include gluten? A young woman's first communion was declared invalid because a gluten-free wafer was used. As if the Eucharist consists of bread and wine exactly as it would've been at the beginning of the Common Era. I guess the girl will just have to go to Hell or spend extra time in Purgatory.

Haley Pelly-Waldman suffers from celiac sprue disease and cannot eat wheat, rye, oats, barley or malt, so when it came time for her to take the sacrament for the first time, her mother Liz asked her priest to allow Haley to eat bread made without gluten, which is a component of wheat.

US Catholic Church officials take hard line on gluten-free wafer

Richard Evans Lee
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The Catholic Church has overstepped it's bounds on this one. When a child is not allowed to have a substance for medical reasons, the Vatican should make an exception and make allowances. This is wrong of the Church to consider a child a lost soul because of a medical condition. I ask this one question, Would God turn His back on this person because of the type of wafer the girl eats at communion?

Posted by: Ryan Joesph Liedtky | September 5, 2004 9:27 PM

You anti-Catholic bigots should learn something about us before bashing. The Blood ("wine") is fully equal to the Body. So if she can't have gluten she can take the wine and not have to worry about "going to Hell" . Morons

Posted by: John | September 30, 2004 8:04 AM

During the preparation of the Eucharist, the host is dipped into the wine, causing the wine to be contaminianted. If someone who is gluten intolerant would drink the contaminated wine, it would still cause them harm. Maybe the bigots are the ones who aren't allowing people to practice their faith due to a medical condition.

Posted by: Mick | October 12, 2004 5:37 PM

John, You're 100% right there. Mick, That won't "contaminiant" it, it dosen't dissolve.

Posted by: Don | October 12, 2004 9:45 PM

Dan, it's called cross-contamination. Even such a small amount of gluten will harm the celiac patient. Of course, it would not be out of the question for there to be a seperate chalice, right?

Posted by: Derek | November 15, 2004 4:51 PM

Yes, i have found that a small piece of the host is usually tolerated well by those with gluten intolerance. Everyone that i have seen with this condition has been able to take it this way, if it is an issue for them for whatever reason to receive that in addition to the cup. We frequently give a small piece of the host to those unable to take a whole one for whatever reason (the ill or the dying, for instance.) It is also true that as a matter of course, Communion is not dipped into the precious blood - altho occasionally you might have someone at Mass who does "intinction" which might put some minor molucules of the host in it, but again, most celiac-sprue can consume this. And if the intolerance is of an extreme nature, the above reader's suggestion of going to a cup where 'intinction' has not occurred would simple solve it. Finally, the wine when consecrated is fully Christ as is Communion, so a faithful, well-informed Catholic should have no issue with this - and just be grateful to receive Him in the cup. I would not quibble with the Lord.

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