I  belong to the last generation of Catholics who still remember the liturgy as it was before the Second Vatican Council (and who still know their Latin). I respect that liturgy for what it was and what it meant to those who came before us -- especially those who lived under persecution -- but I have no desire to return to it. The world has moved on since 1962. So has the Church.

This debate is fundamentally about ecclesiology, not liturgy. Let's weed the biretta-boys out of the seminaries and close any seminaries that are still teaching the toxic doctrine that a priest is 'ontologically superior' to a layperson.

If you were to attend Solemn Mass at The Oratory in London (where one of my uncles was a priest for 25 years), you would think you were attending a pre-Vatican II Mass. In fact, it is a modern Roman Mass celebrated in Latin with traditional ceremonial including fiddle-back chasubles, lace albs and birettas. Few Catholics under 60 would know the difference.