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Entry: The Folk Mass is Ended... Go in Peace Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_folk_mass_is_ended_go_in_peace#31904 Post contents: Great piece as always, John. Only one (maybe not so) minor correction: communion in the hand is technically an indult, not a normative practice, granted by way of exception to those areas of the Church that have it (Woody might say: that are so degenerate as to need it). This has again been made clear by the Pope's chief liturgist, Msgr Marini, among others. By way of contrast, after Summorum Pontificum, the Extraordinary Form is a legal right of all the faithful, and thus should be available everywhere. That it is not is a scandal and suggests that the recalcitrant bishops are employing the old read, sit, stall and delay (my apologies to a great law firm whose original name this used, unfairly, to parody) tactic, waiting for him to pass on to his reward, which is even more of a scandal. Sent at: 2008 11 20