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In the Archdiocese of Portland, I’d say bowing during the Nicene Creed is the norm at the parishes I’ve belonged to and visited and has been for a very long time: that is to say, the priests do it, the altar servers do it, and most of the faithful are with it enough to do it most of the time. The practice is in the missals put out by Oregon Catholic Press, as well, in italics at the point in the Creed where it happens.
We recite the Apostle’s Creed instead of the Nicene Creed very occasionally, but the Creed is not skipped. (Genuflecting instead of bowing at the mention of the Incarnation on Christmas and the Solemnity of the Annunciation is a little more hit and miss.)
I don’t know any priests who do the elevation as you describe. Archbishop Sample has had the Office of Divine Worship put out a liturgical handbook (on the entirety of best liturgical practices) and a video on how to receive Holy Communion reverently. He also wrote a letter recently on music in the liturgy. I think there is a greater awareness of these things on that account. The faithful at some parishes are more devoted about the rubrics–just say the black, do the red, add nothing on your own volition–and I’d say at other parishes some of the faithful are liable to introduce differences they deem to be better. (Yes, more usually where the faithful self-identify as “progressive.”)
There are a few priests who seem to think they can “improve” the liturgy with some idiosyncracy or other, but they’re the minority.
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