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Student Who Took Religious Icon Getting Death Threats
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Shows what I don't know about Catholicism....I didn't realize that not
swallowing the "body of Christ" was the religious equivalent of eating bacon in a mosque.  Will a fatwa be uttered by the local priest or bishop?

What is the harm of not eating the "body of Christ"?  So what, if the guy does not want communion....who is hurt by it?  Call me naieve.  I know...I am missing the literal conception of the wafer & wine.
So, in essence he stole a piece of Christ's body.......    Yeah...right.

See this:

http://www.theorthodoxromancatholic.com/...bd-24.html

"It is also clear that behind each and every Communion in the hand, at least objectively speaking, we can see satanical machinations at work, as Satan is the Great Imitator and master of egalitarian deception by making the bread of this world appear to be equal to the Bread of Heaven wherever he can."  

>> What happens if a plate of wafers falls and gets contaminated...?  What happens to them? <<

"Now what are these sacrileges, venial or serious sins, that this seemingly innocent "Novus Ordo Missae" rubric countenances with every single Communion in the hand?   While even one such deed done, disrespectfully and knowingly, is certainly a mortal sin and a sacrilege at the same time, it is nevertheless too abundant, if only one.   By the same token such liturgical oversights, if even venial, are likewise abundant if only done once in the entire world.   But no, these violations are pandemic, not only venially but also mortally as sacrileges.   Why?  Because each and every time a liberal Catholic receives Communion in the hand, particles, flakes, or infinitesimal specs can and do fall from their hands on to the floor, no matter how careful or careless they may be when receiving the host from the priest, especially because the rubric of altar boys with patens has been a thing of the past since Communion in the hand's very innovation.   Nor is anything done to clean up these egregious sacrileges, purposeful or not, when they obviously do occur by clergy, sacristans, or even the so-called extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist.  Everybody, that is an observant Catholic these days,  has seen these disgraceful and careless oversights whenever such liturgical mishaps do occur, with precious little or no effort at rescuing the Sacred Presence from further sacrilegious disgrace.  This is an abomination in the House of God!    This so seriously violates the Pauline rubric of Eucharistic reverence for clergy and communicants everywhere and always:  to never act as though the Body and Blood of Christ were not present or to fail to  discern the Body of Our Lord in Communion for as St. Paul says: "he who eateth and drinketh the Body and Blood of the Lord unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself."
I don't think many Episcopalians will be running to the RCC anytime soon...!
To paraphrase the late great George Carlin...

"Jesus Christ in a Cracker!" (Of course, in the interest of liturgical correctness, in a Catholic Church Jesus Christ actually IS the cracker LOL).

Seriously, this drives me nuts about the Church. I can understand reverence for the Eucharist but this is in the realm of the ridiculous! One good thing is that if the Church is trying to remain "timeless" by keeping a little bit of the 15th Century alive and well they are doing quite well at it.
From Blackadder....my kind of priest:

"The baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells is one of the funniest characters in the second Black Adder series. He is not only the bishop of Bath and Wells, but also the assistant manager of The Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod.

Edmund describes the bishop as "the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who drowns babies at their christening and eats them in the vestry afterwards."

Bishop himself says: "You see, I am a colossal pervert. No form of sexual depravity is too low for me. Animal, vegetable or mineral -- I'll do anything to anything."

http://blackadder.powertie.org/transcripts/2/4/
"I don't think many Episcopalians will be running to the RCC anytime soon...!"

I dunno, they say the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism is more Catholic that the Catholics!

"What happens if a plate of wafers falls and gets contaminated...? What happens to them?"

Usually, at least back in my youth-shortly after the resurrection mind you Wink wafers were placed in a chalice which made it difficult for them to slip away.

However, should such a thing happen...if a consecrated host is in a single piece still, the priest should consume it or he may offer it to a communicant. If it's in pieces, the priest should clean up all pieces and consume them. It is also his responsibility to consume left over consecrated wine, and left over consecrated hosts are put in a monstrance for delivery to the sick and dying, or adoration by the faithful.

These are hardcore beliefs-which no one in my Catholic upbringing would have ever bothered with, to be frank Smile

And as for the Catholic League, well let's just say they make PETA and the NRA seem like a local book club...
Well...a perk after all...

"It is also his responsibility to consume left over consecrated wine,..."
Only if you like watered down wine...the consecrated wine is a mixture of water and wine. Presumably left over water is left alone Smile
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