Celiac Disease controversy heating up again, courtesy of ABC news

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Looks like ABC is rehashing the story from last year about the girl in New Jersey with Celiac Disease, and it appears that her mother is sticking to her guns to have canon law changed to accomodate her daughter. Its obvious this is going beyond an honest misunderstanding of Catholic teaching, and with the pulpit of ABC news she is using her daughter to preach to the choir of anti-Catholic sentiment.

The story: abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=617257&page=1

Personally, she could enlist the entire dissident Catholic establishment into her camp to make an ultimatum, that her family and everyone else on her petition would ship out of Rome and set up a parallel Church if it doesn’t make such and such changes to canon law. But you know what, that would be just fine with me, since they don’t understand Catholic teaching and apparently refuse to understand.

Anyhow there ARE option availabe today for such Celiac sufferers, without needing to violate canon law. Look no further: catholicceliacs.org/
 
…Catholics believe the wine and the wafer symbolize the body and blood of Christ. When it was Haley’s turn to experience her first communion, she donned a special white dress for the occasion, ready to participate in the ritual that unites Catholics around the world. But for Haley there was a difference.

Anyone see a problem with the above quote from the linked story? Just another case of poorly instructed Catholics.

Over the weekend, Terri Shaivo received last rites, her mouth was too dry to consume the eucharist, so she had only received the Precious Blood. I think this could be a great teaching moment about the true nature of the Body and Blood of Christ (each species containing the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ).
 
We Byzantine Catholics give communion to infants, before they are taking solid food. We just give them the precious Blood.

This is part of the problem with giving under both species and why the Latin Church stopped doing this for a time. People start to think that if they don’t get both then they do not recieve Jesus fully.

But then as Lurch104 points out, they do not seem to even believe in the Real Presence here anyways.
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Personally, she could enlist the entire dissident Catholic establishment into her camp to make an ultimatum, that her family and everyone else on her petition would ship out of Rome and set up a parallel Church if it doesn’t make such and such changes to canon law. But you know what, that would be just fine with me, since they don’t understand Catholic teaching and apparently refuse to understand.

Anyhow there ARE option availabe today for such Celiac sufferers, without needing to violate canon law.
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This issue has nothing to do with Canon Law. It is dogma. Only wheat and water for the host in the Latin Church, only wheat, water, and yeast for the host in the Byzantine Churches.

No Canon Law change could modify this.
 
A friend of mine has Celiac’s disease, a pretty severe case of it, such that low-gluten hosts, or even receiving the Precious blood that has had a little fraction of a host dropped into it is enough to give her a reaction. So if she wants to receive Communion she basically needs to have a cup that the priest doesn’t drop a piece of host into, that she receives from before anyone else does. The other complication is that not all wine is necessarily gluten-free, which was very surprising to me. I think she ends up abstaining from Communion a fair bit because this is all very overwhelming to deal with. Sometimes she will just receive the host and know that she will get sick.

This friend of mine has a big book full of products that are certifiably gluten-free. It was really amazing to me to see the wide variety of things beyond products that are obviously made from wheat that you have to be careful about. Such as wine and other beverages. Certain brands are ok, and others aren’t. I never would have thought of that. It really is a tough life to lead… rather than stick to the very restrictive diet, some people with this condition prefer to eat more liberally, knowing they will likely die younger.
 
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…Catholics believe the wine and the wafer symbolize the body and blood of Christ. When it was Haley’s turn to experience her first communion, she donned a special white dress for the occasion, ready to participate in the ritual that unites Catholics around the world. But for Haley there was a difference.

Anyone see a problem with the above quote from the linked story? Just another case of poorly instructed Catholics.

Over the weekend, Terri Shaivo received last rites, her mouth was too dry to consume the eucharist, so she had only received the Precious Blood. I think this could be a great teaching moment about the true nature of the Body and Blood of Christ (each species containing the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ).
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NO, NO, NO!!!

The “wafer and wine” do not symbolize the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!

They become the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, yet retain the appearances of bread and wine.

Poor catechesis!
 
Why not just have the Priest reserve some Blood only? She gets Communion. Having one is just as good as having both.
Why should the rest of the world change for one person, especially when there is already available measures to accomodate her ?
 
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We Byzantine Catholics give communion to infants, before they are taking solid food. We just give them the precious Blood.
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that was already offered to the Mother. She refused, saying she does not want her child to drink alcohol.

The diocese offered mustum (very low alcohol wine), again she refused, stating that even a little was too much.

I really wondered at that. What about cough syrup? Would she allow her daughter to have alcohol in a temporal medicine? And if so, why not in a Spiritual medicine?
 
Hello, just chiming in here.

In my parish ministry we have had a large number of former alcoholics come through the doors. As a result, the Bishop permits our parish to use Mustim.

Mustim doesn’t even have enough alcohol to be registered as anything, so it can be shipped over state lines and could be bought by a ten year old (though why a ten year old would want to spend $5.00 - 8.00 on a bottle of ecclesiastically approved pure, non-pastureized grape juice is beyond me).

The problem with Welchs (and yes, people keep asking) is that the pastuerization process permanently changes the nature of the juice. The chemical structure is altered, and it is no longer the fruit of the vine.

Mustim is pure-pressed, flash-sealed, and is allowed by Church Law. (In the RCC it’s subject to Vatican approval, as I recall… in our jurisdiction, each bishop may permit it’s use).

Here at the hospital, I use regular altar wine, but the hospital won’t pay for it (oh well!). If I was to switch here at the hospital, I’d have to switch to communion by intinction (the priest dips the host into the Precious Blood and administers on the tongue). Since we administer to kneeling communicants, that wouldn’t be a problem, but that’s a different story for a different time.

Rob+
 
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that was already offered to the Mother. She refused, saying she does not want her child to drink alcohol.

The diocese offered mustum (very low alcohol wine), again she refused, stating that even a little was too much.

I really wondered at that. What about cough syrup? Would she allow her daughter to have alcohol in a temporal medicine? And if so, why not in a Spiritual medicine?
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