“A recent craze associated with so-called active participation promotes the idea that there must be dance at a solemn Mass,†writes Francis Cardinal Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, in his book Celebrating the Eucharist (p. 53). Before we kick off our shoes, don ballet slippers, and inadvertently find ourselves or our children sashaying in the Sanctuary, it is important to understand what Holy Mother Church teaches about dance at Mass.To enter a Catholic church is to leave the world behind and cross a threshold into that which is holy. The church building...