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?

Q: In a recent column you wrote that it “wasn’t appropriate” to hold hands during the “Our Father” at Mass, because the Church’s law is silent on this point. But couldn’t you read it the opposite way, meaning that since it’s not actually forbidden then it should be allowed? My family has always held hands…