I’m not sure what Mass God prefers.  But I know what Mass I prefer, and I don’t understand why the bishops bend over backwards to prevent me from attending it.

When I lived in Boston years ago, there was an old priest who ran a Tridentine Mass chapel.  He’d been hounded out of his ministry and vilified by the hierarchy because he stuck to the old rite.  Maybe ‘persecution’ is too strong a word, when you think of the martyrs of the early church or the modern martyrs of the middle east, but he was treated pretty shabbily for this terrible crime.  Now—imagine if he’d done something like molest children.  How would he have been treated then?

Exactly.