One can attend as many masses as one wishes; one may only receive communion once in a day.
I wish the NYT and others would interview the Catholics I know. They don't want these changes. Most of them want the church to take a less liberal stance in the US than that which it has taken in the last 10 years.
By the way, I was a lapsed Catholic and just went back to the Church recently. I attended a church denomination that was more liberal married preachers, women preachers, etc...I thought that was what I wanted and I was wrong.