Tag: Low-gluten hosts

As a Catholic doctor with coeliac disease and student of the liberal arts, there are few things closer to my heart than safe communion for those with coeliac disease. I read The Catholic Weekly's "God-gluten dilemma" with joy and wanted to add a few reflections from a medical perspective, writes Dr Paul Hanna.

If God intends for us to eat his body, and the Mass wafer requires gluten, why has he designed some faithful with a gluten intolerance? Coeliac parishioner Laura Bechara misses Lebanese bread and the Bread of Life most, but through her condition has found an even closer bond with her Lord.