The Congregation for Divine Worship has just instructed priests around the world [see News, page 25] that, even at funerals and weddings, they are not to leave their place at the altar to exchange a greeting of peace with the faithful, not even with those who are mourning a death in the family or those who are happily joining themselves in matrimony. Is this act of micro-management compatible with what St John Paul II wrote in Veritatis Splendor (no 2): “Jesus’ way of acting and his words, his deeds and his precepts, constitute the moral rule of Christian life”? At the Last Supper, Jesus stood up, removed his outer garments, and stepped down to wash the feet of his disciples. What would Jesus do today at the celebration of the Eucharist? Are we meant to imagine that he w