Thursday, August 26, 2004

Medicine: the Roman Catholic Church makes me want to smoke crack

Celiac Sprue is a condition where the person who suffers from it experiences extremely bad symptoms after ingesting gluten, which can be found in many foods, namely ones that contain wheat. This isn't something ultra-rare or anything, though usually I believe it develops/is found later in life.

Halle, an 8-year old girl, suffers from Celiac Sprue.

But the archdiocese of Trenton, NJ says her first communion isn't valid, because her wafer contained rice, insead of the church mandated wheat.

Well, I guess at least she'll go to heaven after her intestinal epithelia is destroyed.

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