Schneider: Bishops Use Coronavirus As Pretext To Spread De-Sacralisation
Nobody can be forced to
receive Communion on the hand, Bishop Athanasius Schneider writes on Rorate-Caeli.Blogspot.com
(February 28).
Commenting on bishops using the
coronavirus “as a pretext” to abolish communion on the tongue, he explains that
from a hygienic point of view, receiving Communion on the tongue is “certainly
less dangerous and more hygienic” than Communion in the hand, “Many pathogens
are transmitted through the hands.”
“Many people who come to church and then receive Holy Communion in their hands
have first touched door handles or handrails and grab bars in public transport
or other buildings.”
Banning Communion in the mouth therefore “constitutes an abuse of authority” to
spread “more and more the process of trivialisation and de-sacralisation” of
the Eucharistic sacrament.
Schneider underlines that in the Church's 2,000-year history there were no
proven cases of contagion due to the reception of Communion.
