[american colleen]

Speaking of SARS... not much problem of communicating that disease in the old rite where people aren't pawsing at each other and playing twister for the Lord's Prayer before picking up the host and putting it in their mouths.

But notice in Toronto the word went out: "no Communion on the tongue!" - and not a word about the dang handshake.

[Thorondir]

The Pope has just recently come out with a rather angry statement saying that the Vatican wants to be notified of any parish that refuses to give communion to a person because he or she kneels or wants to take the Holy Eucharist on the tongue.