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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't the bishops have some really meaningful purpose in life? I guess not. Hugs about as much they can handle.

Hasn't this denomination learned its lesson the hard way about touching other people? You Abercrombie and Fitch reference was riotously funny, but also a very valid concern for men in this "every male is a potential pervert" society we are living in these day.

This is so obviously still another lame attempt to make the lay folk "feel inclusive and equal" with the celebrant.

The "embrace" is no doubt a duplication of that exchanged by concelebrating priests. Ditto for the arms outstretched position during the Lord's Prayer. Ditto again (is that redundant?) with people standing after receiving the Blessed Sacrament...just like the priests who (one sincerely hopes) are standing while distributing the Sacrament.

Somebody is taking the phrase "a priestly people" a tad too literally.

Think of all the legal fees which will be generated when all those persons hugged sue for "sex abuse." Many a legal suit for abuse involves far less than a hug. Of course, the frenzy created by the hostile media brings us back to the stiff frigidity of the old Jansenism: "Ne me touche pas!" [Touch me not!]

I have a wife and two daughters and nobody's hugging them except me.

I agree with Mr. Luse. I don't want anyone hugging my daughters (or sons, for that matter.) I am not particularly paranoid about these matters, but I don't think there is any point in training the kids in 'stranger danger' and the concept of 'personal space' and then expecting them to hug strangers in Church. And the whole thing seems so insincere....

Things like this make me wonder if the bishop ever read, much less wrote, these things before they appeared in print. I hope that we find out that this whole article was inaccurate. As printed, this stop just short of passing the Holy Marijuana Joint. Then again, if this were in the South, hugging is actually a somewhat normal practice.

At our church, people often embrace each other at the Peace--if they know each other. If they don't, then generally they shake hands.

Fair disclosure: I'm Episcopalian--a conservative, theologically orthodox Episcopalian, mind you--and therefore probably not to be trusted, but I remember much the same thing in Catholic circles I've frequented, and particularly among the Newman community at Stanford University in the mid-80's.

Why make such a fuss about it?

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