Taking Communion caused such a problem for those who couldn’t eat the gluten commonly used in communion wafers. While it sounds simple to eliminate the gluten, the Catholic Church requires that the ...

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A recent letter from the Vatican reminded the world’s Catholic bishops of a rule mandating the use of wheat gluten for the celebration of the Eucharist, a Christian liturgical service called the Mass ...

Mary Lee Rossmaessler — who has celiac disease, a problem with gluten — has a special arrangement for communion at St. Dennis Catholic Church in Madison. She avoids taking a wafer and drinks out of a ...

I come from a very "sacramental theology." That is simply a fancy way of saying that I experience God in a profound way in the sharing of the bread and cup in Holy Communion and in the waters of ...

Today in North America there is an intense concern about the nature of bread used for Communion by Catholics – celiac disease, caused by gluten intolerance, affects at least 1 percent of the global ...

Palmrya United Methodist church has communion every first Sunday of the month at 8:30 or 11 a.m. For those allergic to wheat there is a Gluten Free Host. For information, call (434) 589-1700 or visit ...