It is reported that the Pope has confirmed the statutes of this movement, despite their continued practice of sitting for the reception of communion. This, with their other liturgical abuses, was condemned by the Congregation for Divine Worship; in 2005 they were given two years to conform to the law of the Church on the matter. They have not.
Hat-tip to Rorate Caeli: On April 24, less than a month ago, in the Redemptoris Mater seminary in Namur, Belgium (one of a large number of seminaries of the same name run by the Neocatechumenal Way around the world), this is how Communion was distributed: as always, a single pancake-sized host is consecrated and then broken into many pieces, and distributed to the sitting congregation - 2 years, 4 months, and 23 days after the two-year phase-out deadline given by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
But of course it is only conservatives and traditionalists who are expected to worry about liturgical law. Right?
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