Do you kneel when you receive Communion at Mass? I don’t really care, except for the fact that the question has become the latest battleground in a decades-old culture war in the Catholic Church. In such situations, I get paid to care.
Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago wrote a letter urging Catholics to stand while receiving Communion during Mass, as opposed to kneeling.
The cardinal said: “The norm established by [the] Holy See for the universal Church and approved by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is for the faithful to process together as an expression of their coming forward as the body of Christ and to receive holy Communion standing.”
