1. Actually, I didn't say "I shall show everyone that I am including the congregation by turning my back on them," or anything like that. So try again, without putting words in my mouth, and paying a little more attention to my actual argument.

2. If you don't see "seeing the priest's face as that significant," then why does it matter so much if he doesn't *face* the assembly? It was you who made so much of that.

3. "Most people see turning one's back on them as a sign of exclusion." Most people in the U.S.? Most people in the world? Most people in your parish? Most people in your circle of friends? How would you even know what most people -- beyond your own circle of friends -- think?

4. On the Assumption, our parish has a Rosary procession. We walked out of the church and around the property of the church and back. The priest was walking behind the altar servers, but ahead of the rest of the people. Did they feel excluded because he was facing the same way as they were?