One thing not mentioned in the article comes to mind: the matter of the eucharistic elements. Getting the matter wrong not only is an abuse, it renders the Mass invalid also. Wheat flour (low gluten content is allowed for scenarios where celiac disease is a problem) and water are the only ingredients for the Host, period (Canon 926 and Inaestimabile Donum 8). Grape wine (or raisin wine, if fresh grapes cannot be procured), neither alcohol-free nor more than 20% alcohol, is the only allowable material for the Precious Blood, period (Canon 924, Inaestimabile Donum 8).
This means that if Father wants to have a “Oreo Cookies and Milk” Mass, or a “Pizza and Beer” Mass, or likes to use dark rye bread for the host, the Mass you are attending is totally invalid. “Run Away!!”, just like King Arthur in Python’s Holy Grail. If the bread is wheat but has other matter in it like raisins, the validity is cast into doubt, at the very least. Using matter like Italian bread is also out, on the grounds that it is leavened - not allowed in the Western Church, and because it *will* spray crumbs everywhere when broken. Trendiness at the expense of calculated disrespect for the Body of Christ is “not a good thing.” Both invalid and doubtfully valid matter should be firmly pointed-out to the pastor, and, nothing availing there, should be emphatically noted for the bishop’s action. Priests have not even sand to stand on in defense of such reprehensible actions. Yet, while these types of abuses aren’t perhaps as common as they were 20 years ago, they are far from rare in some areas of the country.
BTW, I saw every one of the abuses I mentioned - and many more that will go unrecorded here - in Boston during the 1980’s.
Those abuses are more thourghly appoached, as I stated above, with canon law numbers, etc. in the following thread which I also posted yesterday, but for some reason is not getting the mileage this one is.