[sitetest]

Dear wideawake,

"What one will not see there are priests sitting on their duffs while only laity distribute communion, people passing the chalice around the pews, teens in bare-midriff outfits reading the Epistle, etc. as happens quite often in my diocese."

I don't live in the Diocese of Lincoln, but like Lincoln, we have all the practices sinkspur mentions. And none of the abuses that you mention here.

Although communion under both species in our archdiocese is not the general practice on Sundays.


sitetest

[ArrogantBustard]

You're in ADW, right? Next time you feel adventurous, try a trip to Virginia Beach. I could recommend a few parishes down there, where the behaviour at Mass and the architecture of the newer 'worship spaces' would curl your hair. I could also recommend a few parishes in NoVA, that would demonstrate that Washington has room for improvement.

I've lived in all three dioceses in the past 20 years.