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<channel><title><![CDATA[Celiac Disease & Gluten-free Diet Information at Celiac.com - Comments for article: Catholicism and Celiac Disease- Part 2 - Sacramental Hope]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.celiac.com]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>scott@celiac.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:45:27 PDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5460</link><description><![CDATA[My local church provides a special host for those of us that are Celiacs.  <br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Cathy Cremmins at 7:10 am, Mon 11th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Cathy Cremmins)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:10:22 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5461</link><description><![CDATA[That's great news.  Many members of my family have left the church because we were excluded from receiving communion using alternative unleavened breads, and we felt like pariahs, turned away.  Of course, I think the rigidity of canon law in this regard is uncharitable, to say the least, especially since there's no specification in sacred scripture that the communion bread has to be made of wheat.  Bravo to the Benedictine sisters for finding a solution that may be workable!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Rosemary at 7:12 am, Mon 11th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Rosemary)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:12:29 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #3]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5464</link><description><![CDATA[While this may be fine for some Celiacs who don't follow a strict avoidance, I found that myself and others had adverse reactions to the "gluten free" host.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Tom at 9:06 am, Mon 11th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Tom)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:06:21 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #4]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5466</link><description><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding like Bill Mahar in the film "Religulous", why in the world would anyone who wants to go totally gluten free give in and say "okay, for the sake of the Sacrament...well .01% is good enough for me--hit me with that level of gluten and hopefully the priestly blessing will bypass my innate immunity not to mention the zonulin over-release and lead me closer to the Sacrament of Extreme Unction as a result."
 I mean come on, all this Nunsense of low gluten wafers is a lot like Mother Mary Encroacher hitting you with a pointer or smacking your fingers with a giant metal ring--the ultimate effect is the same.  They entice you with the phrase "low gluten" but they know in their hearts they're out to hurt you.  No MALE who ever went through Parochial School could or would ever write this article, because it is a bunch of bunk and every Catholic male knows it!!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Jeff at 10:18 am, Mon 11th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Jeff)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:18:23 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #5]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5476</link><description><![CDATA["Partaking of Communion through the Blood of Christ is still a full participation of the Holy Sacrament"...what about the fact that (in most cases) many people (people that have gluten on their lips) have already put their mouth to the cup...not to mention backwash...it seems to me that there is potentially even more gluten in the cup than there is in a low-gluten host.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Jim at 3:18 pm, Tue 12th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Jim)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:18:57 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #6]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5527</link><description><![CDATA[I was raised Catholic, now I want none of it, and this whole issue and article reinforces my choices and shows what a bunch of BS all this ritualistic crap really is. Go on and kill yourself faster in the name of Christ then, if you have no faith in modern medicine.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Zloduska at 9:50 am, Wed 20th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Zloduska)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:50:23 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #7]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5568</link><description><![CDATA[I observe the low ratings given the comments by males to this, who suffered the most as a gender in Roman Catholicism, and thus this is not only unsurprising but predictable.
  I also observe that the esteemed Dr. Fasano somehow takes the "politically correct position on this"--as a Catholic from the seat of Catholicism, Italy.  His science is over the top and ASTONISHING--but I find his willingness to compromise his scientific principles---which he knows to be a scientifically unacceptable compromise---to be frustrating.
 Yes--the analogy would be for a Nun to tell a boy in her class:"I'm just going to rap your fingers with this pointer once--as opposed to five hundred times."  They truly have convinced themselves this is a whole lot better, since they have to live under Canon Law and have no other choice in the matter because Canon Law has no compromise on the wheat content nor does the church compromise on the fact the wheat MUST contain gluten.  
  That women are so adoring of this idea merely reflects women supporting women--in this case within Catholicism, which has always been taken to extremes.  
 "Low gluten hosts." George Carlin would say "They should call themselves the "Sisters of Perpetual Compromise"!!"You can'
t beat the game!!" Good God Almighty!!!<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Jeff Kelly at 8:22 am, Sun 24th Jan 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Jeff Kelly)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:22:23 PST]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/21989/1/Catholicism-and-Celiac-Disease--Part-2---Sacramental-Hope/Page1.html#Comment5568</guid></item></channel></rss>