The archdiocese avoided giving answers, claiming that they would leave a note of clarification – not published until now
Video shows the archbishop of Londrina (PR), Dom Geremias Steinmetz, at the funeral mass of the late Cardinal Dom Geraldo Majella Agnelo, the second archbishop of the city, delivering the consecrated host [Body of Christ] into the hands of Sheik Ahmad Saleh Mahairi, founder of the Rei Faisal Mosque, in Londrina, and the greatest authority on Islamic matters in the country. In the images, Dom Geremias sees the Arab in robes, who skips the communion line, and even so delivers the Eucharist to him. Mahairi, in turn, pretends that he is going to take communion, but then lowers his hand and does not take the Eucharist to his mouth — this moment is filmed, but then the sheikh leaves the camera's range and it is no longer possible to know whether he is he actually ate the host or took it somewhere.
The video showing this moment went viral. Several Catholic faithful used social …More