I hate it when people in the church are stupid.
The whole wheat thing became acceptable because St. Thomas discusses this as the acceptable material for the Eucharist...then lo and behold it found itself in the rulebook.
However, if we are going by the words of saints as authority on this one, then if one would read St. Cajetan, one would find that any kind of grain diluted with milk to make the bread would be suitable.
There are things that end up in the Catechism or other various rulebooks that don't belong because they are TRADITIONS rather then DOCTRINE. The importance is the transubstanation of Christ (meaning the bread actually becoming Christs body/blood while maintaining the appearance of bread) not the material the bread is made of.
Seems like lately a lot of people have been needing to remove their heads from their a$$es.
Besides all this, if the family wants to play it by the doctrine, then they can pull out the doctrine of personal conscience, which basically states that the first authority on what is "right" or "wrong" or "valid" or "invalid" is God, but the second is "consciousness" or the individual conscience and relationship between the individual and God. By this doctrine, just because it is by the belief of a few bishops that this girl's communion was invalid, that doesn't mean that it is true....to the girl that communion could be as valid as any, and truly only God could decide. Bam...my straight flush beats your 4 aces.....
This is all according to Catholic belief, anyhow. I shouldn't have to disclaim this, but yall know that if I don't, some idiot will come online spouting baptist doctrine and how Catholics are all wrong, or some other bunk on how there is no God, etc, etc, when that isn't the topic of the conversation.
The second thing I can't WAIT to hear is when people jump on my a$$ on this without having actually READ anything on the subject, because of course, everyone knows everything on the internet. However, if one does their research, one will find that what I say is true.
Anyways...I am a Catholic, and I say this is stupid, and I have my resources to back up why....
PAUL
