This sounds way too weird to be true.
Actually am told a lot of priests don’t like people kneeling.
It happened to me. Complete with the arm-grabbing.
“This sounds way too weird to be true.”
I have no idea if this particular case is true, but I know a Catholic family who lived in the Kansas City, Missouri diocese some years ago and they were denied communion by a parish priest because the family knelt (the girls also wore chapel veils). The father of the family was deployed in Afghanistan if I recall correctly. He wrote a letter to Bishop Robert Finn explaining the situation and asking for help. Finn, from what I was told, wrote back telling him to essentially shut up. I never saw the letters, and that seemed out of character for Finn (who I met later) but this family would never lie to me.