The family boasts of an 80 percent market share in the United States, and similar or even greater percentages in Canada, England, and Australia. With those kinds of numbers, the Cavanagh Co. is the Microsoft of altar bread........The company employs 36 full-time people making altar bread. The family is Roman Catholic, "but you certainly don't have to be Catholic to work here," said Brian. "It's a manufacturing company. There's no fake reverence for the product." Until the wafers are used by a priest in the celebration of the Eucharist, "it's just bread," he said.
To: Alex Murphy
It’s always amazed me to note there never seems to be blood on those things.
2 posted on
12/16/2008 11:47:27 AM PST by
ConservativeMind
(What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
To: Alex Murphy
Why don’t churches simply use bread? After all, didn’t Jesus break bread and not compressed styrofoam?
To: Alex Murphy
Until the wafers are used by a priest in the celebration of the Eucharist, "it's just bread," he said. Bread?
I thought for sure I was forced to eat styrofoam all these years
4 posted on
12/16/2008 12:25:49 PM PST by
Smedley
(It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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