[Antoninus]

The Vatican is not going to "split heads," and you know it. No bishop in his right mind would put a bunch of ex-SSPX priests in Novus Ordo parishes unless he had a death wish for his diocese.

The first part of this statement is a correct interpretation of my perhaps overly optimistic wishful thinking. The second part is a nice demonstration of your perhaps overly pessimistic wishful thinking. Hate to tell you, but the Latin mass generates a lot of interest among young people -- particularly those of us who grew up in the era of gross liturgical "innovation." I believe our diocese could support several Latin mass parishes. We already have one...

[sinkspur]

Hate to tell you, but the Latin mass generates a lot of interest among young people -- particularly those of us who grew up in the era of gross liturgical "innovation.

I'm sure it does in your world. But the numbers simply don't bear out the "lot of interest" that many of the (to paraphrase your words) "overly optimistic" here on FR keep insisting is out there.

In addition, there's a lot of difference between the Novus Ordo in Latin and the Tridentine Mass. The Novus Ordo is normative; even the Pope is not in favor of allowing the Tridentine Mass to supplant the Novus Ordo. That's why I can't, for the life of me, figure out where all these SSSP priests are going to find work. Bishops are simply not going to establish more than one or two "Latin only" parishes in a diocese.