On Eucharistic Discipline

Starting in 2013 and variously thereafter, Pope Francis has called upon Catholics, especially young Catholics, to "make a mess." In a way, this makes admirable sense. Reform and renewal always involve a kind of creative destruction. Disrupting old patterns of sin and purifying the spirit can be turbulent work. There's a reason James Joyce described the Catholic faith as "here comes everybody." The Church is a very big family packed with sinners and eccentric personalities from top to bottom, all in need of conversion.