[welfareworker]

Nice thought by the Vatican, but the Latin traditional rite can't just be re-introduced by fiat. Its been some 35 years you know.

Not enough priests know enough Latin to even begin to say Mass in the language. And that doesn't even begin to consider the huge number of rubrics or rules on how to say Mass in the traditional rite that priests would have to learn.

In other words, I'll believe it when I see it, a huge amount of learning will have to come down before this can be enacted.

[huskyboy]

Not enough priests know enough Latin to even begin to say Mass in the language. And that doesn't even begin to consider the huge number of rubrics or rules on how to say Mass in the traditional rite that priests would have to learn.

But you know what. . . the priest shortage too many people have been complaining about has actually been manufactured.

One also has to consider the number of men who left the priesthood after the de facto replacement of the Mass with the novus ordo service. There is the possibility that many of them who would be more than happy to come back to say Mass once again (that is, if they have not been laicized).

The biggest obstacles to the proposal are the church architecture and post-conciliar catechesis. No way Mass should be said in the Rog Mahal, for example. And the way many people think and believe, it would take quite a bit of time for them to understand why they should not receive Holy Communion at all (or why they can not just simply stand with hands out stretched).