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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2014, 11:15 AM Dec 2014

Low-Gluten Diet Alternatives Have Reached A New Frontier: The Catholic Church [View all]

SAM P.K. COLLINS

In recent years, people inconvenienced by celiac disease have increasingly turned to gluten-free food alternatives as part of an effort to lead a normal life while avoiding the protein composite that triggers symptoms of the disorder.

But just when many thought they have seen the height of the diet’s popularity, it has reached a new frontier: the Catholic Church. Observers of the Catholic faith can now adhere to doctor’s orders without worry when they take low-gluten wafers with their wine during the Holy Communion.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/12/29/3607228/low-gluten-communion-wafers/

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Low-Gluten Diet Alternatives Have Reached A New Frontier: The Catholic Church [View all] hrmjustin Dec 2014 OP

We have a few congregants in my parish that receive low gluten hosts. TexasProgresive Dec 2014 #1

In my Episcopal parish the organist needs it so we have to buy them. hrmjustin Dec 2014 #2