Rorate Caeli calls Communion handling the gravest problem of the "Ordinary Form." Mother Teresa was of the same mind. Pope Paul VI permitted Communion handling "in special circumstances." So, naturally, it happens everywhere and all the time.
As the Servant of God Father John Hardon, S.J. wrote, “Behind Communion in the hand-I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can-is a weakening, a conscious, a deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, great theologian of the Real Presence, pray for us.
