Making Light:  Misanthropy at the grimy end of winter ::: March 28, 2005, 06:54 AM

Mark D.:

  You will always be given wine in Anglican/Episcopal churches;
  rarely, if ever, in Catholic.

How recent is your information?  I got the impression in the 1990s
that wine was de rigueur.  Chewing, too.  Though perhaps my memory
is leaking again.

Let us also dismiss the suggestion of someone choking a comatose
patient with a communion host.  There are procedures for administering
communion to people who cannot swallow; after all, there is no
theologically minimum size for a host.  Procedures might be not be
followed every single time, but this case is being carefully watched.