Nice Try: Bishop Attempts to Push Communion in the Hand on Old Mass
Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika, USA, who is known for weird and blasphemous Twitter posts, ordered to resume public Masses in his diocese at Pentecost.
However: “Communion will be restricted only to the hand for the foreseeable future,” Stika wrote on Twitter (May 1).
After this, several commentators referred to Cardinal Sarah's explanation that the faithful are free to receive Communion on the tongue.
Twitter-User DeusVultTLM posted a Vatican reply during the 2009 Swine flu which says that it's not permitted to deny Communion on the tongue for sanitarian reasons.
Stika dismissed this on Twitter as a "dated document." He protests that he is guided "by my conscience" and "I have the authority."
He threatens to postpone resuming the Tridentine Latin Mass, and turns emotional, "I am getting rather tired of people who believe they know better.”
Nevertheless, Stika should know, that before committing the sacrilege of communion in the hand, the faithful of the Original Rite will renounce Holy Communion.
Picture: © Joseph Shaw, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsNoycahvfnt
However: “Communion will be restricted only to the hand for the foreseeable future,” Stika wrote on Twitter (May 1).
After this, several commentators referred to Cardinal Sarah's explanation that the faithful are free to receive Communion on the tongue.
Twitter-User DeusVultTLM posted a Vatican reply during the 2009 Swine flu which says that it's not permitted to deny Communion on the tongue for sanitarian reasons.
Stika dismissed this on Twitter as a "dated document." He protests that he is guided "by my conscience" and "I have the authority."
He threatens to postpone resuming the Tridentine Latin Mass, and turns emotional, "I am getting rather tired of people who believe they know better.”
Nevertheless, Stika should know, that before committing the sacrilege of communion in the hand, the faithful of the Original Rite will renounce Holy Communion.
Picture: © Joseph Shaw, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsNoycahvfnt