text: You reflect an ignorance of liturgical history, I'm afraid. "Problems" have accompanied every liturgy of the Church.  The last major reform of the liturgy, of 400 years before Vatican II,  and despite the more minor but significant changes in the interim, gives witness to the shallow nature of the view you espouse here, mjmchale.  And of great importance, the Church forced the Latin mass on the faithful in Asia and Africa, whose cultures were far, far from Eurocentric culture, and whose complaints of neglect and suppression were first heard publicly at Vatican II, constituted significant problems for those churches, did they not?  The more contemporary liturgical reform movements - culminating in Sacrosanctum Concilium - were well underway in the later 1800's.  So, your claim of "[n]ever had this problem with the traditional Mass, did we?" is ill-considered and incorrectly revisionist as well as fully self-serving.