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Think of Christ as spiritual bleach: you can't stain Him but He gets the stains out. Make sense?

This is my husband's view as well. But it used to be that you couldn't even touch the host. Now it's okay for everyone to drink out of the same cup. It's going from one extreme to the other.

Now it's okay for everyone to drink out of the same cup. It's going from one extreme to the other.

Here's the thing: It's still not okay to touch the host, technically. The American Church has grossly exaggerated a special exception made by Rome, but the whole of the Roman Church receives on the tongue.
However, this isn't because we're "dirty laity," so to speak, but rather the priest is in persona Christi, the person of Christ, and in the sacrament of the Eucharist only he can consecrate the host and literally "bring" it to the rest of the congregation. It is the priest, in persona Christi that is to hand Christ to us and we are not meant to hand Christ to ourselves as Christ did not confer upon us the power to consecrate the host to begin with.

There is a difference between not touching the Eucharist because we're "dirty" and not touching the Eucharist because we don't have the authority. Church theology supports the latter.

"Now it's okay for everyone to drink out of the same cup. It's going from one extreme to the other."

Amen. And how do the polls say the overall Faith of Catholics has responded? Are we more reverent? Do we revere Christ more? Do we really believe it him truly and substantially abiding in the Holy Eucharist?

All the polls since this began indicate otherwise. Of course most Catholics don't know and could care less. This is called sacrilege.