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=========================    News Highlights
 
1.  December Holiday Support Group Meetings and pot luck meals are
scheduled for Orlando on the 3rd and Cocoa Beach on the 10th.  Tampa
will have their meeting at the Lai Thai restaurant on the 9th and the
cost is $7.95 per person.  Checks should be made out to the Lai Thai
 
2.  Celiac Group Leaders will gather in Chicago on November 4 and 5 for
talks on the best way to form a US Celiac Coalition.  This coalition
will not replace your support group.  It will reinforce the common
objectives of all celiacs in talking with the Government and Food
Manufacturers in identifying ingredients for the best possible quality
of life.  There has been considerable grass roots support for this
concept and a very large representation has submitted their reservation.
 
3.  Bette Hagman's taping of GF South West cooking in Portales, NM will
be broadcast in three segments.  Check with your local PBS station for
availability of KENW-TV's Creative Living.  A tape of the show is
available for $15.00 from KENW-TV, Attn: Sheryl Borden, 52 Broadcast
Center, Portales, NM 88130
 
4.  "Celiac Disease: The Dark Side of the Gastrointestinal Planet" was
an exceptional conference held in July. The speakers included
gastroenterologists from the USA, Italy, and Finland; a dietitian, and a
consumer safety officer from the FDA.  The speakers provided  a wealth
of material on CD for the 300 in attendance.  Audio cassette tapes are
available from the conference with  each speaker on a separate tape.
The tapes are offered as a complete set, for $40 plus $5 shipping and
handling.  Contact Vicky Roach by phone at: Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology & Nutrition, University of Maryland Hospital, N5W70, 22
South Greene St., Baltimore, MD  21201,  (410) 328-0812 or by fax at
(410) 328-1072.
 
5.  Low-Gluten Altar Breads:
 
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The use of alternate wafer made from gluten-free ingredients or wine
only must be addressed with your local priest.
Priests and Gluten:
 
   The Vatican has provoked fury by issuing a decree banning men who
   suffer from an allergy to gluten from becoming priests. All
   communion wafers must contain gluten to be suitable for the
   celebration of the Eucharist, the Vatican has decreed.  Gluten,
   the protein in wheat, triggers the debilitating coeliac disease.
   Coeliac disease can cause dramatic weight loss, vomiting and
   diarrhoea as the gluten irritates the small intestine.  Lethargy
   and breathlessness are also symptoms.
 
   The extraordinary ruling would in theory have prohibited one of
   the most prominent Catholic clerics of the postwar period from
   being ordained.  The Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock,
   suffers from the allergy known as coeliac disease.  Quoted from
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