Reply #16: So, I guess you're OK with the church's decision?

[tekriter]

My opinions of the catholic church are not done from a vacuum or from ignorance, I was raised catholic and only in the last few years broke away completely. I have about 45 years of catholic adherence under my belt, so I do feel I have the right and the knowledge to speak.

This New Jersey situation is one of the most boneheaded things I've heard come out of the church. Even with all the child molestation scandals here you have an 8 yr old kid who WANTS TO BELONG to the church. She wants to receive sacraments. Her class was getting their first communion. Because of a danger to her health she should not eat wheat.

The church's answer: Tough shit, kid. If you want to drink some wine, well that's OK but not a rice wafer. Jesus had wheat bread at the last supper so you have to have it, too.

But let's think about it - the communion wafer is supposed to be, not bread, but the actual body of JESUS CHRIST. The Miracle of Transubstantiation, if I recall correctly. After the transubstantiation it isn't wheat bread anymore.

So I guess Jesus does not have the power to make rice wafers into his body, but wheat is no sweat? Or, if it's still wheat bread, then it isn't the body of Christ. You can't have it both ways.

Like I said, loons.