Countries without the indult...?

[twf]

I keep on hearing that some countries have not been given the indult to receive on the hand (if only it was all countries! ). Does anybody have a list? I live in Canada where I would say the vast majority (but certainly not all) receive on the hand. I have been told that this is also the case in Pakistan and South Korea. Now I realize that liberalism is a powerful force in the North American/Western European Church, but how did this custom become so universal, so quickly in Asian countries?

 

[Corki]

I keep on hearing that some countries have not been given the indult to receive on the hand (if only it was all countries! ). Does anybody have a list? I live in Canada where I would say the vast majority (but certainly not all) receive on the hand. I have been told that this is also the case in Pakistan and South Korea. Now I realize that liberalism is a powerful force in the North American/Western European Church, but how did this custom become so universal, so quickly in Asian countries?

I don’t know about a list but I know from travels and asking priests that there is no indult in Colombia and parts of Mexico. This is as recently as 2007.

 

[Andreas_Hofer]

Well, I know at the most recent Synod of Bishops one of the Eastern Europeans actually proposed that the indult be removed, so I’m guessing there’s a good chance of it not being implemented over near him.

 

[AJV]

I keep on hearing that some countries have not been given the indult to receive on the hand (if only it was all countries! ). Does anybody have a list? I live in Canada where I would say the vast majority (but certainly not all) receive on the hand. I have been told that this is also the case in Pakistan and South Korea. Now I realize that liberalism is a powerful force in the North American/Western European Church, but how did this custom become so universal, so quickly in Asian countries?

India has an indult, but in places in the South they do not practice it at all, and priests will not give you Communion in the hand. I do not know whether it is that they just don’t do it, or whether the indult is not operative in those dioceses.

 

[redpepper]

It is not a practice where I come from (slovakia).

 

[porys]

In Poland there is only in some dioceses (alas since 2006).
But even there it is not practiced by most of fatihfull.

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

The best thing to do is to observe what others before you are doing. If all receive on the tongue, then receive it that way. If you see some receiving on the hand, then know that that is OK. Prior to our receiving the indult, I have had people refuse the Eucharist if they could not receive it in the hand. I will leave further judgments to you.
Deacon Ed B