Fear over the spread of germs has brought modern technology to the centuries-old practice of dispensing communion wafers during Catholic services—and resulted in litigation as well. Nu-Life Products, a Minnesota-based company, created a hand-held device (utilizing a “revolutionary Rapid Reload System”) that allows priests to give out the “body of Christ” to parishioners without touching the wafers. Nu-Life’s president, Douglas Henricksen, then left the company to start his own, Nu-Life Church Supplies, which developed similar wafer-dispensing technology that is marketed as a “Germ-Free Communion Host Delivery System.” Henricksen’s former company is now suing him and his new company for patent infringement, claiming he violated the confidentiality agreement he signed while running Nu-Life Products. Henricksen, on the other hand, claims that he designed the communion host dispenser.