Actually the Novus Ordo should be defined as "the optional Vernacular Rite of Paul VI" and the inaccurate term "Tridentine" should be recognized as the only "Latin Rite."
But it's not, is it?
Define it however you wish. There is no apparent clamoring for the wholesale return of the Tridentine Mass among even the world's bishops, to say nothing of priests and laymen.
How many bishops celebrate the Indult?
"Actually the Novus Ordo should be defined as "the optional Vernacular Rite of Paul VI" and the inaccurate term "Tridentine" should be recognized as the only "Latin Rite.""
An interesting observation where Novus Ordo suddenly becomes the Latin Rite, thus devaluing the Traditional Mass, and which Anglicans happily use as an alternative to the Book of Common Prayer. No doubt this universality in practice is not lost on the new pope which will ensure its survival and be worthy of more tinkering to reflect papal quirkiness and evolving social expression. To suggest that the Traditional Mass can coexist with Novus Ordo is like comparing heaven with hell.