[ninenot]

Altar girls and the use of fleets of EEM's are abuses, they were begun in defiance of authority, and they should be smacked down, hard, Deacon. Communion in the hand, similarly, was begun as an act of defiance.

Defiance just sort of makes you feel good, ain'a? (Did I tell you that I, too, am NOT a shrink?)

[sinkspur]

Altar girls and the use of fleets of EEM's are abuses, they were begun in defiance of authority, and they should be smacked down, hard, Deacon. Communion in the hand, similarly, was begun as an act of defiance.

But, they've been approved by Rome. If Rome didn't "smack them down" intially, it missed its chance because bishops will likely now fight for them, since they are now common practice.

No, "smacking them down" now will require considerable exegesis and and explanation.

Which means, they won't be "smacked down," because there's little support for that, among the bishops.