[Mrs. Don-o]

That is very regrettable. I felt sucker-punched, that's for sure. He basically rewarded the disobedient: "easier to get forgiveness than permission," as they say.

It's the kind of thing that guarantees cynicism.

[ebb tide]

What’s even more regrettable is this:

>>”It is not permitted that the faithful should themselves pick up the consecrated bread and the sacred chalice, still less that they should hand them from one to another.”<<

>>- Pope John Paul II, Inaestimabile Donum (April, 1980) -<<

Regarding canonizations, a devil’s advocate would have had a field day with Pope John Paul II’s capitulations and reversals; but guess who abolished that position?