Current Eucharistic debates cannot be reduced to allowing or not allowing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. If that was the issue rather than just a symptom, a solution might be more readily worked out.
But the current debates run deeper. Nor are they just “old” versus “new.” Those who cite posture for receiving Communion, for example, want to cast the issue in those categories.
Andrea Grillo, the Roman liturgist to whom it attributed authorship of Traditionis custodes, which restricts the Latin Mass, recently wrote a piece criticizing Blessed Carlo Acutis. Acutis’s canonization was deferred until September because of the papal interregnum. Grillo deems him to victim of “mal-education” when it comes to “Eucharistic theology” because Acutis was interested in Eucharistic miracles.
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