The Catholic Church in Uganda has announced a critical shortage of mass wine. Wine is one of the important items at the altar for the holy Eucharist. The holy sacrifice of the Eucharist must be celebrated in bread and wine, to which a small quantity of water is added, as per the present Code of Read more
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Mass in doubt: Police confiscate ‘illegal’ altar wine
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Police and anti-smuggling authorities have confiscated nearly 8,000 bottles of altar wine in Canada’s predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec. The operation concentrated on three businesses in the eastern Canadian province that distribute sacramental wine to churches. At issue was a longstanding, tacit agreement between the wine suppliers and the provincial government. Police now say the Read more
All wine is ‘not’ suitable for Eucharist
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Sacramental altar wine used to need ecclesiastical approval. It sort of still does. In 1995 the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference decided that, “Given the more frequent practice of Holy Communion under both kinds, it seems opportune to assure priests that it is no longer necessary always to use ‘ecclesiastically approved’ wine”. A widespread practice Read more