I cannot tell you how much I agree with your post #52. And the criticism includes the Holy Father and the bizarre timing of his sappy remarks about the mohammedan hijackers. However well-grounded in deep theology those remarks may have been, the Pope--who was once an actor--seems totally unmoored from human nature and intuition about good timing.
I know, I know it sounds incredibly nit-picky. But, as the cultral disaster inexoribly unfolds within the Church, it is impossible not to see all the underground roots heaving up and revealing the relationship between the minor irritants, aesthetic abominations, the foppishness, the homosexuality the girlie-poo-poo-ness....
Uhhmmm. I should have just stopped with: "I agree with your #52," and let it go at that. But nooooo.....
You're NOT being nit-picky. I'm only in my mid-twenties so I've been to one Latin Mass (part of a Latin class) in Grammar school. I cannot comment on it, because I've never known it.
I have a gut feeling that I can't describe. Like something's missing.