What was this communion at Pope's recent mass in USA?

[Uggi]

During the Pope’s recent visit, at mass several priests took communion by dipping the host in the wine and then consuming it. Not all the priests did that just a certain group from what I could see. Was this a particular order of priests?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

What you describe is what we call “intinction.” Intinction is when instead of receiving the host and consecrated wine separately the priest dips the host in the chalice and receives both at once. This is a form of communion by priests that any priest can do. Priests can also distribute communion to the faithful in this manner:

USCCB’s Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America:

1. Holy Communion may be distributed by intinction in the following manner: “Each communicant, while holding a Communion-plate under the mouth, approaches the Priest who holds a vessel with the sacred particles, with a minister standing at his side and holding the chalice. The Priest takes a host, intincts it partly in the chalice and, showing it, says: ‘The Body and Blood of Christ.’ The communicant replies, ‘Amen,’ receives the Sacrament in the mouth from the Priest, and then withdraws.”

Redemptionis Sacramentum:

[103.] The norms of the Roman Missal admit the principle that in cases where Communion is administered under both kinds, “the Blood of the Lord may be received either by drinking from the chalice directly, or by intinction, or by means of a tube or a spoon”. As regards the administering of Communion to lay members of Christ’s faithful, the Bishops may exclude Communion with the tube or the spoon where this is not the local custom, though the option of administering Communion by intinction always remains. If this modality is employed, however, hosts should be used which are neither too thin nor too small, and the communicant should receive the Sacrament from the Priest only on the tongue.

[104.] The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand…