or a cloistered nun, you don’t know discipline until you’ve seen Communion being given out at a papal Mass. I remember early-morning Mass in the rain in Central Park. Priest, altar boy with Vatican-issue umbrella. In record time, everyone gets Communion. You’d think it would be a mess, but it’s more fluid than your local parish at the more crowded Masses.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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