Italy: An Archbishop 'Forbids' Reception of Holy Communion

Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, Italy, maintains an order that forces the faithful not to receive Holy Communion, but to grasp it with their fingers.

Forte's secretary said in a 12 April memo that the holy water could be reintroduced in churches: "With regard to the distribution of Communion in our archdiocese, the faithful continue to receive the Eucharist in the hand." Forte has no authority to order this.

The ban on Holy Water and reception of Holy Communion began with the Covid hysteria. Interestingly, with the beginning of the Ukrainian war in February 2022, the hysteria disappeared from one day to the other from the propaganda screen of the oligarchs.

Accordingly, the Italian bishops, who naturally had completely bought into the Covid fraud, "allowed" the reception of Communion in April 2022 and officially overcame their Covid panic in May 2023.

Forte, who insists on "obedience" when it comes to defending Francis, disobeyed this decision. He announced in June 2022 and April 2023 that all the faithful must grasp Holy Communion with their fingers as if the Body of Christ were a potato chip.

In 2016, Forte revealed that Francis had told him that he wouldn't talk explicitly about Communion for adulterers to avoid a fuss, but would set the premises for it and draw the conclusions later.

In April 2020, Mgr. Forte walked alone in a Good Friday procession in honour of the coronavirus, but unfortunately during the event Christ fell from the cross.

Picture: Bruno Forte © wikicommons CC BY-SA, #newsTkudxynbsu

All Saints
God has said to keep His day holy. His holy Catholic Church has decided that Sunday Mass attendance fulfils that obligation. However, TheChurch must provide the means to the Mass that fulfils that obligation. When that does not happen, such as in the early days of The Church, and now when She has been besieged, that obligation can still be fulfilled at home by th individual Faithful. That is a fact …More
God has said to keep His day holy. His holy Catholic Church has decided that Sunday Mass attendance fulfils that obligation. However, TheChurch must provide the means to the Mass that fulfils that obligation. When that does not happen, such as in the early days of The Church, and now when She has been besieged, that obligation can still be fulfilled at home by th individual Faithful. That is a fact. No one can make you participate in the Freemason-approved Protestant worship service. When you know what the Mass is and what the Mass does, you will realize that you can stay at home, give God your entire day and not offend Him by dancing the Nervous Weirdo Cha Cha Cha.

Starve the monkeys!!
Maria delos Angeles
Precisely what I do
Ann Smith
"If the faith is in imminent peril, prelates ought to be accused by their subjects, even in public." (St. Thomas Aquinas) I have no fear of doing the above, before finding a Latin Mass to attend, was hoping more people would do the same when abuses occur, sadly, many don't know an abuse when it smacks them in the face.
Ann Smith
Many Catholics don't know an abuse when there is one. After 50+ years it has incrementally gotten worse and so many believe these modernist prelates when they say that the Church must move with the times. And we've seen where these 'times' have led us. And the youth today 😞
Seabass
Everyone (even the baddie bishops!) should read the books of Machabees. These outrages won't last forever and they'll have Our Lord to contend with. Convert while ya can, fellas.
DrMaria
Protestant blasphemer - not a Catholic or a successor of the Apostles
Maria delos Angeles
I was banned from Westminster cathedral after I was denied three times by different chaplains the proper way of receiving. I still went back though, they did not have the gumption (and I knew) the true spiritual authority to stop me.
DrMaria
Way to go!!
Father Karl A Claver
This 'bishop' is an air head. He knows nothing about canon or liturgical law.
Dr Bobus
One of my Angelicum profs, actually a mentor, didn't think much off Forte. In fact, outside of class he referred to Forte as a cretinaccio. Forte was not yet a bishop.
All Saints
When will we get links to these stories?
Denis Efimov
When will our Holy Mother Church be freed from this kind of monsters?
Louis IX
Thousands of sacrileges a week fall upon his head.