Controversy Hits Communion Wafer Dispensing Machine Industry

Friday, January 01, 2010
-Noel Brinkerhoff

Fear over the spread of germs has brought modern technology to the centuries-old practice of dispensing communion wafers during Catholic services—and resulted in litigation as well. Nu-Life Products, a Minnesota-based company, created a hand-held device (utilizing a “revolutionary Rapid Reload System”) that allows priests to give out the “body of Christ” to parishioners without touching the wafers. the rest image