I enjoyed John Hirschauer's post on the sloppiness of the contemporary Catholic liturgy. It belongs to a proud and thriving genre. I had not heard the line about crawling to receive Eucharist attributed to Mohandas K. Gandhi before — usually, it's John Calvin or some unnamed Muslim or Jacobin.
But I wonder if he hasn't got the causality backward: Perhaps it is the case that the liturgies, and church manners more generally, have become excessively democratic because so many American Catholics no longer really believe their own dogma, rather than that otherwise devout believers have lost their faith because of "extraordinary" eucharistic ministers in blue jeans?
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