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French Prime Minister Puts The Body Of Christ In His Pocket



Jul 9, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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Telegraph Journal: A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic priest is demanding the Prime Minister’s Office explain what happened to the sacramental communion wafer Stephen Harper was given at Roméo LeBlanc’s funeral mass.

During communion at the solemn and dignified service held last Friday in Memramcook for the former governor general, the prime minister slipped the thin wafer that Catholics call “the host” into his jacket pocket.

In Catholic understanding, the host – once consecrated by a priest for the Eucharist – becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ. It is crucial that the small wafer be consumed when it is received.

Monsignor Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John, wants to know whether the prime minister consumed the host and, if not, what happened to it.

If Harper accepted the host but did not consume it, “it’s worse than a faux pas, it’s a scandal from the Catholic point of view,” he said.


  • intrepid

    Missleading headline,Mr.Harper is the Canadian
    Prime Minister not french or France.And if he’s not
    Catholic,which I don’t believe he is,what would you do.Maybe not accept the the cracker at all,thats
    what I would do. :roll:

  • Chandler

    Yea, big deal, what would the headlines have been if he refused the “host”?

  • TedB

    You are idiots. WTF?

    If he’s not Catholic, then why go up to receive the host? If he did not go up to receive Communion then there would be no controversy. But instead he was a thoughtless idiot, that is the controversy.

  • GRIZZ

    YOU DONT HAVE TO BE CATHOLIC TO TAKE COMMUNION.

  • cocorico

    so far Canada isn’t France