What did the Church use for wine during the Prohibition Era in the USA?

Wine with some alcohol fermentation must be used during the mass. It seems, either no wine was used (but that would oppose Church teaching) or we broke the new civil law or maybe the government allowed priests to use wine for the mass and this exception was part of the amendment.

-- Mike H. (michael.hitzelberger@vscc.cc.tn.us), April 08, 2003

Answers

>:-)

-- Mike H. (michael.hitzelberger@vscc.cc.tn.us), April 08, 2003.

Mike, On religious grounds (worship) the Church was exempt from prohibtion laws when using wine in celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

-- Ed (catholic4444@yahoo.ca), April 08, 2003.

Thanks Ed

I figured I was one of the few clueless ones on this >:-)

-- Mike H. (michael.hitzelberger@vscc.cc.tn.us), April 08, 2003.

Mike, One of the owner's of san Antonio Winery's in Los Angeles, which makes the wine for the archdiocese told me during a tour that their only sales during prohibition was for the catholic Church, just as Ed said: on religious grounds.

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), April 08, 2003.

Thanks Elpidio,

Good to know we were not simply being discriminated against by the amendment. I read this too:

"By 1906, the (Prohibition) movement was well under way, fueled by anti-alien and anti-Roman Catholic sentiments among the Protestant middle classes."

-- Mike H. (michael.hitzelberger@vscc.cc.tn.us), April 08, 2003.

I thought the anti-alien movement didn't start until after the Roswell incident in '49.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), April 08, 2003.

Thanks for that giggle, Emerald. JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@Hotmail.com), April 11, 2003.

snicker @ Emerald

-- Mike H. (michael.hitzelberger@vscc.cc.tn.us), April 11, 2003.