[magisterium]

The article doesn't get into any of this, but, if we are now talking about a "Gregorian rite, that would presumably mean that it will be open to the creation of its own hierarchy. As a historical observation, that has generally been the case. They might not get around to this with the proposed Gregorian Rite, but it seems to me that the change from "Extraordinary Form" to "Gregorian Rite" entails more than the esthetics of a name change. Either this will allow the creation of a separate Rite, or it is a further step toward the gradual elimination of the Novus Ordo. Both possibilities bring a big smile to my face on this beautiful Sunday morning!

[livius]

I don’t think the Pope wants to create yet another division in the Church. I think this is a further step towards eliminating the Novus Ordo. I love the term Gregorian Mass or rite, btw, because it simply eliminates all the ambiguities over the term “Tridentine,” the description “Latin,” etc. and also takes it out of the clutches of the self-appointed monitors of orthodoxy (who, while some of them must be thanked for heroically standing up to the modernists, can also be quite bitter and nasty and would probably drive people away). We’re making a fresh start, in other words.

I think this is really exciting news. My only concern was that perhaps this wasn’t exactly what Castrillon meant to say. However, I think the Pope or somebody else at the Vatican recently used the term “Gregorian Mass,” so it’s clearly something they’re discussing.