The Recovering Choir Director

Courtesy of G. Thomas Fitzpatrick:

[T]here may not be more than a handful of people in any one parish who want to attend a Latin Mass. But in an entire region, those handfuls add up. And if you are going to close older parishes anyway, why not experiment by turning over one in each region to the FSSP? The only loss will be in not being able to sell the real estate.

Is it fear that the Latin Mass may yet prove too popular if given a fair test? A whole generation of churchmen has a lot invested in the Novus Ordo Mass. Even though the objective criteria say that it, or the way it is often abused, is part of the problem of declining church-going demographics, they may not be willing to allow the old and new rites to be celebrated side by side in the same region. Their nostrums about people wanting an interactive Mass and guitars and touchy-feely homilies might be proven wrong.

Feel free to continue the discussion at Recta Ratio.