Girl allergic to church doctrine

That's madness!

I hope the child's parents walked out of the church, never to return. What hypocracy! If someone wishes to belong and participate in the ceremonies, it shouldn't matter if the communion wafer is an after dinner mint. Apparently "the church" won't recognize the first communion unless they make the little girl sick.

How stupid is that?

This reinforces my opinion of the Catholic Church.

God obviously inflicted this girl on purpose so she couldn't share in communion and be a member of the church. Perhaps she's the anti-christ and allowing her communion would bring the second coming?

This is the same crutch... er ... church that coddles known child molesters, but can't open their hearts to an 8 year old girl who by (according the church teachings) has been inflicted by God with this problem?

Feh!

No wonder people have stopped listening to the guy in the funny hat and the dress...

Sounds like the kind of thing she might actually end up being thankful for, a few years down the line. Maybe it'll steer her in the right direction, towards understanding what the Catholic Church is all about.

Just a hope... and a fervent prayer! Like Bill Hicks would say.

"God created little girl incapable of being Roman Catholic."

Smirk-inducing, but short of the truth, like many a zinger. It seems she could have taken Communion via wine, but Mom has a vague problem with sips of alcohol.

Presumably she's purged the house of Nyquil and Robotussin as well.

I agree, Tom. What kind of mother doesn't let her 8-year-old drink alcohol!

Brian:

Well, 8 years out of the womb is a little late for fetal alcohol syndrome. And unless she's draining the cup to the dregs every week, there are exactly zero health concerns for an eight year old taking a sip of wine once per week.

IIRC, my off the boat Italian friends permitted a small glass of wine to kids of the same age once per week at the family Sunday dinner. No brain damage to the now-adult children I know (one's an engineer for Ford, so it may be hard to tell, I'll admit).

But if it makes everyone feel better to put all the blame for inflexibility on the (admittedly a fair target) bad old Catholic hierarchy, who am I to say different? If a parishioner wants the priest to consecrate dinner mints, Velveeta, corn chips or Alpo, the papists must bend. It's only fair.

This is exactly why the Independent Catholic Movement is growing so fast in this country ! You can still be a Catholic, without Rome ! Come join us in the Reconciliation Catholic Church,
Hollywood, Florida !!

Don't get me going on THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Do other denominations feel this way.....hummmmm.

I suppose then, that the ALCOHOLIC who is in recovery should also drink the wine offered, right? Wrong?

It gets harder everyday being a RC.
Being the Mom of more than one adult child, who as a child was molested, OK...I'm forced to say allegedly MOLESTED BY FR. RAYMOND PCOLKA, here in CT in the 70's......I personally think the church has its head up its YOU KNOW WHAT.

Believe it or not, alcoholics are encouraged to pass on the cup and take the host instead. If the alcoholic suffered from celiac, the low-gluten wafer would be tried. In almost all but the most extreme cases of celiac, it works. The mother refused to even try that here. She may be justified--the article doesn't say how bad a case the girl suffers from. On the other hand, Mom may just be obstinate.

It's even worse for celiac sufferers who attend Eastern Catholic/Orthodox churches. In both, the bread and wine are combined and served via a common spoon. I imagine the ECs/EOs have worked something out, but it's easier at the More Evil™ Latin rite churches.

And both the priest who molested your child and the bishop who let him have a parish should spend the rest of their misbegotten lives in prison.

For starters.

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The Catholic Church is not a true Christian institution and this has been Biblically proven over and over.

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