A protocol to the Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina) has recently been announced, promoted and signed by its archbishop Monsignor Jorge Eduardo Lozano, which are on all catechumens, including children of first communion, to receive Holy Communion only standing and in hand.
The text, dated 27 August 2025, also orders that ministers serving on the altar also communicate. This is not a mere suggestion, but an imposition that in a universally recognized right to all the faithful.
The instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum (2004) is clear: Everything faithful always has the right to choose to choose to receive Holy Communion in their mouths. No bishop has the power to suppress that right. What was signed by Monsignor Lozano is illegal and nullandvoid.
This protocol exhibits a sick authoritarianism that aims to drown out any sign of reverence for the Eucharist. Forcing children to receive the Lord standing and in hand, depriving them of the freedom to do so in the mouth and knees, is not pastoralism: it is abuse of power and perversion of the sacred.
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