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Just a note to the list re Roman Catholic Church attitude to requests from
coeliacs in Ireland for gluten-free communion.

My experience is that when I approached my local priest here in Dublin,
there was no hassle whatsoever. He gave me the choice of bringing my own
gluten-free hosts or of just receiving wine on its own, along with the altar
servers. Also it is the practice in our church at weekday masses to serve
bread and wine to all the (admittedly small) congregation.

 It seems the problems some of you have been having are very much based on
the personal attitudes of individual priests,etc. The rules are not cast in
stone!

Regards to all.

Deirdre Weafer