I'm in complete agreement with DeSanctis.  In fact, as a post-Vatican II Catholic, this nostalgic re-envisioning of church interiors and ritual is one of the reasons I decided to leave. I was raised and then educated, formed and worked as a lay minister  by and in an institution who worked very hard encourage full participation of the laity, creating less of a sense of the priest being superior in some way.  Under Benedict's reign, I saw these acts of encouragement and welcome slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) stripped away.  The two final straws for me was when our Parish Director was stripped of her preaching rights, and when our new (conservative) pastor re-instituted a formal ceremony for installing the left-over hosts in the tabernacle.  I swear to God, as the communion ministers bowed in supplication and then turned the key in the lock I heard the heavens shout, "Jesus has left the building."  Indeed, it seems he has.  

Lauri Ann Lumby
Temple of the Magdalene