Om ikke lenge skal pave Benedikt til Frankrike, og den franske (ganske radikale) avisa Le Figaro har et stykke om de liturgiske forandringene som franskmenn da kommer til å se. Stykket bygger i stor grad på et intervju med pavens MC, Guido Marini, og kan leses på engelsk her og fransk her. Her er litt av innholdet:
«Benedict XVI wants to emphasize that the norms for distributing Communion in the Catholic Church are still in force. One has indeed forgotten that the distribution of Holy Communion in the hand is due to an indult, an exception, one might say, given by the Holy See to the episcopal conferences that request it.» He recognizes that Benedict XVI has a «preference» for communion in the mouth but that «the use of this modality does not detract from the other modality, to receive the host in hand.» However, he observes, «to receive the host in the mouth highlights the truth of the Real Presence in the Eucharist, it helps the devotion of the faithful and introduces more easily into the sense of mystery. So many aspects it is important to stress today and urgent to recover.» Nothing, therefore, of a papal fantasy. These changes in liturgical forms are part of a clear vision of Benedict XVI and explicitly expressed in Rome by several interlocutors close to him: «To achieve, ultimately, a liturgical synthesis between the Mass of Paul VI and that which tradition can contribute to it as enrichment.»