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

[Sue Clemenger]

In other words, if you go sober *after* you're a priest that's one 
thing? But if you're a sober, recovering alcoholic who wants to enter 
Holy Orders (by which I take to mean, becoming a priest), you're out of 
luck?
--maire, confused......

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

> Alcoholic priests are allowed to use mustum to celebrate the mass... 
> because it's still grape juice. Alcoholic parishioners would simply avoid 
> recieving under both species. (AA members in their loud 5th year of 
> sobriety would, I suppose, attend only churches that didn't offer under 
> both species.)
> 
> 
>>Or sobriety for people with alcohol problems! Geez, louise!
>>--maire might be Catholic, but sue's glad she's nothing of the sort!
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>>Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:
>>
>>A letter
>>>from the Vatican states that *low-gluten* wafers may be used, but not 
>>
>>>gluten-free because that would change the basic nature of the bread.  It 
>>>specifies that sufferers of celiac or alcoholism may not be admitted to 
>>>Holy Orders because Eucharist is so central to the job, although it 
>>>seems to state that currently ordained priests may apply for exceptions 
>>>but may not be able to perform in all functions of their position if 
>>>they do.
>>
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