This headline in the Times, “Pope set to bring back Latin Mass that divided the Church,” is hardly accurate. As the text of the article explains, the Latin Mass united the Church, for more than a few centuries. It was the new vernacular Mass introduced by Pope Paul VI which led to the divisions the author describes. So why not “Pope to bring back Latin Mass that united the Church”? Was it a typesetting error, or illiteracy, or editorial bias? I think I know which.
As St. Loaf of Meat once observed, “Two out of three ain’t bad.”
Except, of course, when it is.