Will Desecration Increase Respect for the Eucharist?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}Earlier this year, Pope Benedict XVI began distributing Holy Communion at papal Masses on the tongue to faithful who were kneeling. After some initial speculation about the reason for this change, the master of ceremonies for papal Masses, Monsignor Guido Marini, made it clear that Pope Benedict was doing so to emphasize that this is the norm for receiving Communion. Monsignor Marini noted, among other things, that it “better sheds light on the truth of the Real Presence in the Eucharist.” University of Minnesota biology professor P.Z. Myers intended his
