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Vatican outlaws gluten-free bread for Holy Communion
It says new rules are needed because Communion bread can now be bought in supermarkets and online.
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BBC could have done better than that... that had to have been a computer generated hatchet job.
The problem is that gluten-free bread has additives in it, the same reason they must use "natural" wine that has no additives in it.
If you're a celiac Catholic, you just have to suffer.
It's rare for a Catholic to receive the blood of Christ, I've never seen it before (and that annoys me), but it appears that Canon Law says that for special circumstances they can receive it. Does wine present a celiac problem?
I don't think so. But I thought it was only Anglicans who got the wine. AFAIK Anglicans can get GF communion "bread" too.
Eastern Catholics(Byzantine, Maronite, etc)[Fun Fact: While in Communion with Rome they are more like the Orthodox without using the original Orthodox Calendar.], Orthodox Christianity [As pertains to the last fun fact, they use the Calendar from the time of Jesus which is why their Christmas and Easter are different times of the year.], Lutherans, Anglicans, and some Methodists receive both forms each weekend, some Methodists only once a month and it is open to all, called open table communion. Other Protestant branches like Baptists and Reformed Presbyterians will take it a few times a year, Southern Baptists usually quarterly but when I was a Baptist they didn't call it communion but "The Lords Supper."
The Romans at some point decided only the priests would receive "full" communion except on rare occasions. I was looking into this and found some Catholic churches still follow both forms, but most only bread and others will do both for Holy Days such as Easter and Christmas. It's up to each Parish. I mean it's kind of hard to ignore at each service they literally say take this all of you and drink from it then don't offer it to all.
EDIT: As pertains to Gluten, most of the Protestant churches do offer the gluten-free host. Although the Church of Christ and Methodist Churches I have been to in my life use an honest to god home baked bread loaf instead of the unleavened kind used most places. I don't know you can make gluten free home bread.
Yeah you can. You can make gluten free muffins,cakes,etc.
Gluten is not bad for you. It affects a certain amount of people, like lactose intolerance. I don't think changing the entire food chain for an anomaly is in the best interest of most of humanity. A cultish power play for attention.
I had sumptuous brownies made from black beans. Once. I’m not sure the chef knew quite how to duplicate the process for science. Sure were good, though.