[St.Chuck]

When was the last time you genuflected--or sang Tantum Ergo, or prayed before the Blessed Sacrament? Have you located the tabernacle in your church yet?

You've got to put the script down. Do you honestly believe that these practices are extinct? Uncommon? You have demonstrated yet another schismatic tendency, that of ignorant prejudice. You are ignorant about the catholic church, and you are prejudiced in that you believe the worse about it. Whoever wrote your script does not know what they are talking about. That you would ask me those questions indicates that you don't read my posts. Sheesh.

[ultima ratio]

Of course these practices still exist in many parishes. I wrote that comment tongue in cheek to some extent. But they are customs that are fast dsapppearing--together with the doctrines that underly them. I attended a major Catholic seminary where the tabernacle was kept in a small room in the basement. Nobody ever genuflected and we wore t-shirts and jeans to Mass--except when the cardinal visited. Have you read the Gallup poll published in Catholic World Report a few years ago on the astonishing number of Catholics who no longer believe in the Real Presence? They are slowly turning into Protestants. And why not? The Novus Ordo has conditioned them, permeated as it is by a Protestant, not Catholic, theological perspective.