[Sca-cooks] Okay, so this is vaguely food-related...

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> ...and this just in, in our G-d proposes, Man disposes department,
>
> http://www.beliefnet.com/story/65/story_6516.html
>
> A brief precis for those who want one, or else would have no interest
> in the link...
>
> A girl in the Boston diocese is on a celiac-type, gluten-free diet,
> and there are issues with the wheat in communion wafers, so this girl
> is leaving the Catholic Church because they won't allow a wheat-free
> communion wafer made from rice or something. Apparently
> transubstantiation doesn't work on a rice wafer. This is actually not
> something I'd expect to blame the Church for, but it does say
> something about paying too much attention to Middle Management. The
> girl's parents, not wishing to be less pigheaded than the Church,
> have refused to allow their daughter to receive the sacrament in the
> species of wine.
>
> <sigh>
>
> Quien es mas estupido?
>
> Just out of curiosity, is there a provision for celiac Jews at
> Passover, or is it okay if you simply eat no bread at all, leavened
> or otherwise?
>
> Adamantius

I have been told by several observant Jews that it's "Live by the law,
don't die by the law." So a celiac doesn't have to eat wheat flour at
Passover, for instance.

Margaret