#popescience

Article author states: “As Greece was diagnosing its first COVID-19 cases in March, church leaders assured the public that the Holy Communion was safe and that no disease — including COVID-19 — could be transmitted through it.”

“In the Greek Orthodox Church, one single utensil is used to administer the Holy Communion to the entire congregation. During a global health crisis, this may seem like a bad idea. But not according to the church.”

Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the Archdiocese of Athens announced Thursday.

The article later “cites” the Church of Greece “The church insists there can be no danger of transmission as communion is the blood and body of Christ and therefore cannot transmit any disease. It says it has complied with all public safety restrictions. “

https://www.startribune.com/greece-s-archbishop-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-symptoms/573125701/

Sad, sad... squeezing Communion into uneducated superstition about ethanol and the nature of a virus and switching the theses and the terms: Holy Communion vs utensils...

Yet!

Not a dogma:  https://www.spoon.gq/post/621929790854823936/shoehorning-dogma-into-spoon

Ioannis Tassias - Metropolitan of Langadas as Ioannis of Langada earlier claimed that microbes (and viruses?) are destroyed with alcohol in Communion wine and ions of silver and gold emitted by liturgical utensils.