"THE VATICAN is preparing to relax the rules on the provision of the Tridentine rite"
Until all the arch-modernist bishops/cardinals who hate the traditional Latin Mass are replaced (or die off from AIDS) all this talk of relaxing draconian restrictions remains nothing more than "smoke and mirrors".
"Until all the arch-modernist bishops/cardinals who hate the traditional Latin Mass are replaced (or die off from AIDS) all this talk of relaxing draconian restrictions remains nothing more than "smoke and mirrors"."
I don't think its quite so simple as that. It could happen sooner with some deft political manoeuvring.
The fag-end of a pontificate is when the various factions in the Vatican make their most audacious plays to try and advance their particular agenda.
Hoyos, Arinze and Ratzinger could try and slip something through before the major bishop's conferences get a chance to bend the Pope's ear.
However, the major problem we have with anything coming out of the Vatican these days is its enforcability.