"The Church finds herself in an hour of anxiety, a disturbed period of self-criticism, or what would even better be called self-destruction [auto-distruzione, auto-demolition, auto-destruction]. It is an interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which nobody expected after the Council (Vatican II). It is almost as if the Church were attacking itself. We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of conceptions which matured in the great sessions of the council. But ... one must notice above all the sorrowful aspect. It is as if the Church were destroying herself." --Pope Paul VI, December 7, 1968, Address to the Lombard Seminary at Rome

"The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic world. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the Church." --Pope Paul VI, October 13, 1977, Address on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions

POPE PAUL VI (1963-1978). "This method [on the tongue] must be retained." (Apostolic Epistle "Memoriale Domini")

POPE JOHN PAUL II (1978-2005). "To touch the sacred species and to distribute them with their own hands is a privilege of the ordained. (Dominicae Cenae, sec. 11)

"It is not permitted that the faithful should themselves pick up the consecrated bread and the sacred chalice, still less that they should hand them from one to another." (Inaestimabile Donum, April 17, 1980, sec. 9)

The dogmatic Council of Trent pronounced: "If anyone says that the Holy Catholic Church has not been influenced by just cause and reasons to give Communion under the form of bread only to laymen and even to clerics when not consecrating, or that she has erred in this, let him be anathema" (Session XXI, Canon 2).

Given what has happened in the Novus Ordo Missae (New Order of Mass), with flagons of wine being unceremoniously "consecrated" and then sacrilegiously poured down the drain, let alone spilled, one can see the wisdom of Holy Mother Church in this regard.

Traditional Roman Catholics can be absolutely certain that when they receive Holy Communion under one species, they are receiving their Lord whole and entire, body and blood, soul and divinity and that they are conforming themselves to a practice more than one thousand years old, which has been canonized by at least three dogmatic ecumenical councils.