Has there been any discussion in the Catholic Church about whether hand sanitizer profanes the Host?
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Quite often, people use hand sanitizer before distributing the Host. Indeed, sometimes you can *taste* the hand sanitizer.
Has there been any discussion in the Catholic Church about whether this profanes the sacred species? As St. Thomas Aquinas says,
> [O]ut of reverence towards this Sacrament, nothing touches it, but
> what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are
> consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this
> Sacrament. Hence, it is not lawful for anyone else to touch it except
> from necessity, for instance, if it were to fall upon the ground, or
> else in some other case of urgency.
Yet, here we have hand sanitizer touching the Sacrament. Should the hand sanitizer, at the least, be consecrated, as the chalice is?
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