https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/13/covid-19-pandemic-prompts-new-nz-mass-guidelines/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:52:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/13/covid-19-pandemic-prompts-new-nz-mass-guidelines/#comment-55734 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:52:34 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20876#comment-55734 No surprise that our bishops adopt a purely naturalistic approach and have come out with this. It reads like a goody-too-shoes NGO placating their civil overlords. As for banning communion on the tongue… that’s simply not within their competency as the Rome has judged time and again. I note they don’t offer any supernatural/spiritual advice at this time – truly sad.

]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/13/covid-19-pandemic-prompts-new-nz-mass-guidelines/#comment-55625 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 07:40:27 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20876#comment-55625 Repeated jurisprudence from the Holy See protects the right of communicants to receive on the tongue and allows for the exception of communicants to receive in the hand where this is allowed (I.e dioceses that allow for communion to be received in the hand). How one chooses to receive Holy Communion is at the discretion of the communicant. No priest or bishop can require or force a communicant to receive holy communion in the hand.

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