[572] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Why gelatin, of meat origin, may be 'kosher'('permissible' to Jews)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Wed May 17 11:53:48 1995
To: wendymas@acs.bu.edu
Cc: lkatz@MIT.EDU, vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 17 May 1995 09:28:13 -0400.
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Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 11:52:23 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
> Actually, the Catholic Church no longer teaches transubstantiation.
> What this means is that the wafer is no longer considered Christs actual
> body but a symbolic representation.
HUH? Where did you hear this? The Catholic Church in fact holds
transubstatiation as one of the central tenets of the faith.
+ Richard
