The long-in-coming motu proprio document approving wider use of the Latin Mass has been signed by the Pope and will soon be published. And boy, you should hear the media squeal. The Philadelphia Church of God gets it wrong because they think "extraordinary rite" exalts it above the current Mass (au contraire, "extraordinary" means the exception rather than the norm). USA Today wrote a scathing piece of drivel where they managed to dismiss the whole rite for prayers offered on one day of the year and make it sound like the Latin Mass folks are about to reverse Vatican II. It also says that "clashes with congregations may erupt as priests push the Latin Mass." Huh? I don't think they realize that it is hard to get a priest who is able to celebrate the Latin Mass, much less one who wants to push it on congregants. Never mind that this is a grassroots movement: It is the people (a tiny minority of them, anyway) who want the Latin Mass, not the clerics who are trying to impose it on an unwilling populace.
Methinks this move is getting more credit than it's worth.
