Reply #32: You're correct - I was wrong - Roman Canon Law requires wine

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But the communion is complete with just the wine.

Roman Catholic Church Code of Canon Law states that hosts must be made of wheat, and therefore, a rice wafer isn't permissible. The Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law permits priests to set aside a special wine chalice exclusively for worshippers following wheat- or gluten-free diets. This eliminates the possibility of the hosts accidentally contaminating the wine. The Canon Law also offers parishioners the alternative of drinking only wine or consuming low-gluten wafers.

Wheat- and gluten-free hosts are approved by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church.

The Lutheran church's policy is "For pressing reasons of health ... congregations might decide to place small amounts of non-wheat bread or non-alcoholic wine or grape juice on the altar. Such pastoral and congregational decisions are delicate and must honor both the tradition of the Church and the people of each local assembly." Similarly, the Episcopal Church allows congregations to offer non-wheat wafers if someone in the church community makes such a request.