[ninenot]

Please document the "mandate" to REMOVE the altar rails in the first place. I can wait, say, 25 years while you try to find it.

[narses]

It was in the V2 Schemas that declared that ALL of the Mass was to be in the vernacular with appropriate ad lib moments for the "president" and his dancing girls.

[sinkspur]

Please document the "mandate" to REMOVE the altar rails in the first place.

I can't. But, they're gone, in some cases, or never built, in others.

I suspect they won't return any time soon.