Church more important than health.

I wouldn't use the same appellations, but in theory, I agree with Wilso. It is really ludicrous that the same church that will give anullments to decades old marriages, to get around church law on divorces, would put a believer at risk for her life, because she doesn't follow a procedure to a "T"!

And this is a church that is so adamant about "life"!

From what I read, she went to a different parish and they were willing to give her communion with a special wafer she could take, but afterwards her own church wouldn't accept it. So her mother had to tell her it didn't count.

the whole concept of communion always freaked me out. i grew up catholic and honestly... does it really make sense?

I don't think God is going to reject this person over a wafer, whether she took it or not. The rigid structure of churches will be their undoing. It is not logical to expect such diversity as seen in mankind to conform to made up church rituals. I suggest she and her family leave the church and find one more suitable to their needs.

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There was a time, not so long ago, that the question of transbustanation (the communion wafer is transformed into the ACTUAL flesh of Christ)tore families apart. To hold the views posted here would have been heresy, and people holding such views put "to the Questions". Submit to the teachings of the Church? No, then die so that your soul might be purified and spend a "time out" in Purgatory instead of an eternity in Hell." Of course, those who disputed the Church weren't all that easy to kill, since they got together and formed their own brands of Christianity. Being good Christians, they often tried to purify the faith by killing Catholics. Oh, they was jolly times there for a few hundred years.

What was the reaction of the Vatican, and if there was no reaction, what was the reaction of the leadership of the US Catholic Church (I presume this happened in the US)?

LMAO

Nice hat you have there OCCOM BILL

Magnificent, isn't it. Thank you.

You're welcome