text: When Pope John Paul allowed the local bishop to authorize (or decline to authorize) the celebration of the Tridentine Mass (Extraordinary Form), the bishop was required to make sure that both the celebrants and the members of the congregation affirmed both the validity and the authority of the Mass of Paul VI (Ordinary Form.) Pope Benedict made what I think history will judge as a serious pastoral error in extending the permission without continuing to protect those values and affirmations. I believe that Pope Francis would correct those mistakes if Benedict were not still living; and that he might yet correct them if Benedict pre-deceases him.
  Of more concern than the rite of the EF is the fact that those who celebrate it use a different liturgical calendar and a different lectionary from the rest of the church, both of which are gravely deficient by comparison. I support a wider use of Latin in the OF for those who understand and love the Latin; and also of Gregorian chant.