world largely refuse to even discuss the above fact. To me, Communion in the Hand is ideologically driven. Those invested in wanting communion in the hand do not want to discuss the huge White Elephant in the room.

Communion in the hand is meant to:
— desacralize the belief in the Real Presence, and,
— make the Catholic practice of Communion similar to that of the Protestant communities.

Historically, one of the first things to be thrown out the window by the Protestants in the 16th Century was the doctrine of the Real Presence which pretty much eliminated the rest of Catholic theology, i.e.:
— no Real Presence = no need for an ordained priesthood,
— no ordained priesthood = no need for an organized church structure or ecclesiology,
— no organized church structure etc.the nature of the sacraments and the situation of the Church. The old gods, sex, mammon, and death, are reviving and reasserting themselves as the gods of autonomy. They are beginning to press their hands on the faithless and the faithful alike. They are groping even for the holy sacraments, that they might defile them. In this situation, do we really need more talk about the internal forum and “the sacred ground of the other”?

These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the