[Prince of Desmond]

Are you kidding me? Are you aware that the Communist Party of China maintains an alternate Catholic church? And you seriously think that they'd have no interest in subverting the real thing? Likewise, the whole practice of receiving Communion in the hand was the product of disobedience to JP II's authority.

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/03/truth-about-communion-in-hand-while.html#.V-MmGfArLIU

The whole concept of the "lay minister" is very much a novelty, and more to the point it turns the proper order of the mass on its head. In many churches we're left with the congregation's proletariat usurping the role traditionally reserved for the ordained.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Of course I'm aware that the Communist Party in China maintains its own alternative to the Catholic Church. Thatr's a good point.

But as far as I know, neither the real CC nor the the wholly-owned Communist subsidiary has Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist. Correct me if I'm wrong. Which I could be.

[Mrs. Don-o]

BTW I have been repeatedly invited to be an EM for our morning weekday Masses, and I respectfully decline. I personally think that Communion for the laity should be under “one kind” (the consecrated Host) so that there isn’t any pretext for laity to be handling the consecrated elements of the Eucharist or the sacred vessels of the altar.