Who can take Holy Communion? If people were honest, almost nobody you know. ROME, Italy -- Forget such lofty aspirations as ridding the Church of child abusers or clamping down on financial corruption, Pope Francis’s biggest obstacle in reforming the Catholic Church comes down to a tiny round gluten-rich Styrofoam-tasting wafer. The Blessed Eucharist, Holy Communion, the breaking of bread, panis triticeus, the host with the most – whatever Catholics call the thin round wafer made of unleavened wheat, the sacrament of the Eucharist is the culminating point of any Catholic mass. And, according to Catholic teaching, the most important of the seven sacraments. Taking communion is when Catholics...
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