[AXOjen]

I think a key issue we're missing here is whether or not a different type of wafer can be confected into the Eucharist. Just because a priest says the words of consecration over an Oreo does not mean that the Oreo became the body and blood of Christ.

The requirements for the wafer are for a reason. Christ took unleavened bread at the passover supper and instituted the Eucharist. He didn't take rice cakes or cinnamon bread (hee!) or Doritos. He used unleavened bread and said, "THIS is my body.".

People seem to think that the Church makes up these "guidelines" will-nilly and is a big old baddy when it won't change them. In this particular case, the mom is asking the Church to do something it can't do... use a fundamentally different substance than the one Jesus used. Even if the priest was willing to use a rice wafer, it might not become a consecrated host. It wouldn't "take", so to speak.

Then the poor girl is just receiving a rice wafer and not her Lord and her God. Everyone present would be worshiping rice. And that's the sin of idolatry. (not that they'd be culpable for it, if they didn't know)