Comments on: COVID-19 pandemic prompts new NZ Mass guidelines

By: ADRIAN MCNAMARA

ADRIAN MCNAMARA — Fri, 22 May 2020 08:09:15 +0000

1. HOW LONG IS HYGIENE CRISIS EXPECTED BY CATHOLIC LEADERS TO LAST IN NEW ZEALAND
2. WHEN IF EVER IS COMMUNION ON THE TGNGUE TO BE ALLOWED
3 DO YOU DENY THAT CANON LAW SAYS COMMUNION ON THE TONGUE IS A LAY PERSON’S UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT

By: Brendan Davies

Brendan Davies — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:52:34 +0000

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.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 07:40:27 +0000

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.