Legalism running amok...
This had to be one of the ugliest reports I have seen in a long time about Roman Catholicism and one that doesn't even involve priests molesting altar boys. The Diocese of Trenton and the Vatican have declared null and void a little girls first communion because the wafer she took for the host did not include any wheat. The reason it didn't was that the girl has an allergy to wheat gluten and even a little bit could kill her. As far as I can tell in the Bible, there isn't a mention of wheat in the last supper, yet the Diocese of Trenton refuses to allow this little girl to use a non-wheat wafer. The really infuriating thing is this:
Some Catholic churches allow no-gluten hosts, while others do not, said Elaine Monarch, executive director of the Celiac Disease Foundation, a California-based support group for sufferers.
So some diocese allow it and others don't? This is the kind of man-made rules we get from Rome that make no sense. Even if you buy into the unBiblical notion of transubstantiationism, the wafer is transformed into the body of Christ because of the priestly prayer not because of the ingredients.
Rome should worry more about setting it's own house in order rather than denying little girls communion because of an argument about wheat gluten.
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