Religion and Coeliac Disease

 

You do wonder about some religions!

Some Roman Catholic churches insist that communion wafers must not be gluten-free.

Supposedly they want to care for people and yet they impose rules on them that will make them ill. I have never met a Roman Catholic priest, but I’m sure that my friend who’s a C. of E. vicar, would feel that tolerance and acceptance of another’s reasonable needs were paramount. There might even be a sermon in it on tolerance!

But then I speak as a man without any religion. Not surprising as my father’s lot were Jews kicked out of Germany and my mother’s were Hugenots thrown out of France.