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The Church previously issued a statement to clarify it was not banning gluten-free bread or non-alcoholic communion wine.
The Anglican Communion has denied media reports that gluten-free bread and non-alcoholic wine are being banned from Holy Communion services.
Just 31% of U.S. Catholics believe that the bread and wine used in Communion become the body and blood of Christ. Nearly seven-in-ten say the Eucharist is symbolic.
Most Catholics believe Jesus Christ is present in the Communion bread and wine they consume at Mass, according to a survey released to coincide with a national revival.
The U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday overturned a lower court order that denied wine to Catholic inmates during communion services at a federal prison, ruling that the prohibition may violate the ...
The priest presides over the rite of the eucharist in which bread, called the host, and wine become consecrated, or holy.
Since the Vatican Council of the 1960s it has become common, though not universal, for Roman Catholics to receive both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine at Communion.
Why must a Communion host contain at least some gluten? Wheat bread and wine of the grape are the matter of the sacrament of the Eucharist because Christ instituted the sacrament under these species.
Communion wine is back in some — but not all — churches this Christmas season as some communities change how they worship in the wake of the pandemic.
Holy Communion, a central sacrament in the Christian faith, involves offering bread and wine to the congregation, symbolizing the body and blood of Christ.