Inch by Inch, Row by Row: Gonna Make those Heresies Go

From Melancholicus at Infelix Ego comes this bit of good news.

Peruvian cardinal stops Communion in the hand

Lima, Apr. 17, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A Peruvian cardinal reports that he has banned the practice of receiving Communion in the hand.

Speaking to the Italian web site Petrus, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru, said that in order to guard against abuses, "the best way to administer Communion is on the tongue."

Cardinal Cipriani told Petrus that he took the step to halt Communion in the hand in order to promote greater reverence for the Eucharist. In some cases, he said, the practice had led to gross abuses. More generally he cited the "relaxed attitude of many priests" as a cause for the decline in reverence.

Well huzzah, huzzah and about time. Now that most of the mainline Protestant denominations Catholic liberals were emulating when they foisted their post-Vatican II innovations upon the Church are declining precipitously, we are at a time when Catholic traditionalists should, inch by inch, push back those innovations, since they have proved such manifest failures.The liberals will squawk, of course, but since they are mostly your Bloviator's age or even older, other than make a lot of noise they cannot do all that much, other than engage in bluster and passive resistance; they are increasingly outnumbered and, like those Protestant denominations, dying off.

The innovators got as far as they did via bullying and intimidation (a standard tactic of the boomer generation) but each time they are stood up to by the likes of Cardinal Cipriani and told, "we are not afraid," they will weaken and will eventually flee, as all bullies do; most likely into the embracing arms of the Episcopal Church.