Questions of Faith: If the Church’s law is silent on holding hands during the ‘Our Father,’ can’t people interpret it as being appropriate?

A reader of The Irish Catholic questioned whether holding hands during the "Our Father" at Mass is appropriate, given that Church law does not explicitly forbid the practice.

In a column by Jenna Marie Cooper, the reader noted that their family has always held hands during this part of the liturgy and suggested that the silence of the law could be interpreted as permission.