...or whatever happens to a Catholic who cannot partake in Communion. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040819/D84IGOE00.html Seems pretty silly to me that a Church would do this to a child. Especially considering this a Church rule and not God's will.
This isn't the first time this has happened. There should be exceptions. The church is afraid making exceptions will lead people to using all kinds of foods for communion, like cheetos or something. Both sides could budge, but she is being difficult refusing the low-alcohol wine. We are talking about one sip for religious reasons. It is the norm. Billions of Catholics her age have done it with real wine, I did.
The wine is not the issue for the little girl. She was later allowed to have a wheat-free wafer but then was told that it didn't count.
Wow. I find this to be incomprehensible. We're making an idol of wafers...losing the significance of symbol of the sacrament over the chemical makeup of the sacrament.
I think I got the above link from a different source I was looking at. Her mom refused the low-alcohol wine as a subsitute.
No, the church just thinks it has the absolute authority to define the form used for transubstantiation.
Umm, it is the Roman Catholic Church. That's kinda part of the doctrine. Not sure if you could call them Catholic anymore if they denied that authority.
I don't think she will go to hell, she will just have to be in limbo before she can ascend. She should still go to confession, so that will help.
I am quite confident that today's church leaders wouldn't accept Jesus any better then the religous leaders of his time. The rules and doctrines of today religions aren't anymore open then that preach and governed by the Pharisees. Remember, they feared Jesus and helped to get him executed. It would be interesting to witness what Jesus would have to say if he strolled into the Vatican to take witness of what his teachings had become.
