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Communion ministers may pour wine but not break
The U.S. bishops have received a Vatican ruling that extraordinary eucharistic ministers may pour consecrated wine into chalices for Communion.
They may seek a U.S. exception allowing those ministers to help purify sacred vessels after Communion when new church liturgy laws take effect.
The Vatican document under which the changes are to be made, the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal, does not yet have an official date to take effect. When it is implemented, it will replace the general instruction issued in 1975.
Among provisions in the new document that have caused concern ...