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How do Western Catholics cross themselves — right shoulder first or left?

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How do Western Catholics cross themselves — right shoulder first or left?

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Roman Catholics touch their forehead, solar plexus, left pectoral and right pectoral. It is reversed for Russian and Greek Orthodox Catholics and Coptics as well as Gnostics: forehead, solar plexus, right pectoral, left pectoral.