Yearning for the Latin Mass by Kevin Starr Courtesy of the San Francisco "Examiner" (Copyright SF Examiner 1978) A goodly number of pseudo-reformist movements these days consists of powerful elites telling the majority of people what to do. Elites grab control of an agency, an institution, a political body, then proceed to legislate without regard to majority opinion. Take the matter of the Latin Mass. A recent Gallup poll shows 64 percent of American Catholics prefer the return of the Latin Mass. Sixty-four percent! That's a solid majority, for sure! Among Catholics with a college education, the figure jumps to...
