I have seen old wooden side altars in churches built before V-2; they are all wood but in the middle they have a little square about an inch or an inch and a half deep and it looks like something went in there. Was that were there had to be stone?

What i wonder is if traditional wooden altars had some amount of stone somewhere, or if some were 100% wood.

The church i went to see is a parish i think and it had like 6 side altars, all wood; they all had a wooden tabernacle in the middle but guess what? They were all ruined from inside and they all had rat poop in them and garbage, and this in a parish which is always in use! And almost all the squares in the center of the side altars were empty and full of candle wax so of course now they use them as chandeliers.

Bastards!

Only in the Novus Ordo.