WYD: Bishop Attacks Priest Who Refused to Hand Out Communion
A priest of the neo-conservative FLUHM community placed Holy Communion on the tongue of young people who presumably wanted to grasp it with their hands at World Youth Day. One of them was Hendrik Roos, 27, a theology student and staff member at the "Bund der deutschen [anti-]katholischen Jugend" (Federation of German [anti-]Catholic Youth) in Münster. As a result, the petty-minded Roos grassed on the priest to the Münster diocesan newspaper Kirche-und-Leben.de. Münster Auxiliary Christoph Hegge then pompously called the correct administration of communion a "no-go." During the Covid hysteria, the Novus-Ordo-bishops considered compulsory communions in the hand a dogma.
Conscientious objection to distributing Communion in the hand seems to be a defensible position, to me. If it had been practiced back when the abuse first began, things may have turned out differently. Now, priests will have to risk “cancellation.” It would be worth it, though.