I don't know. I don't go.
But you used to go. And you keep defending it, and saying it's ok to attend, because the Church said it is.My understanding is the reform of the reform was to attempt to reel in the errant bishops and priests. I don't know if the Pope wanted to reform the NO Mass, but reform the modernism that had gone off the rails.
It makes no difference if Pope Benedict wanted to reform the NO, or reform the modernist's version of it...the end result is the same. The end result is that the NO that was/is being said in 95% of the churches both then AND NOW is deficient. The "reform of the reform" never truly happened.
Let me give you an example. Let's say that for 2,000 years every diocese had a beautiful olive tree(s) in the church backyard. These trees would supply all the olive oil for all the church ceremonies for the year and were a symbolism for the health of the diocese. These trees were of the utmost purity and 100% organic, having been received from Rome whenever a new diocese was founded.
In the 1960s, the pope planted an orchard of new olive trees that were a hybrid, GMO type. They were supposed to be more hardy, more resistant to bugs and produce more fruit. And he issued a decree saying that all dioceses in the whole latin rite world 'could' (but did not have to) use one of his GMO olive trees to plant in their diocese. All the bishops readily agreed and they all had ceremonies in their dioceses to commemorate the planting of the 'papal olive tree' in the backyard of the church. (However, in order to plant the "new" tree, they had to dig up the old, vibrant olive trees that were planted all over the yards, in all the dioceses...some of these trees had been there for centuries and were very healthy and very nutritious). But the bishops told everyone "The pope said we MUST use his new tree (which was a lie), so the people went along with it).
As time went on, people started using the new olives and the oil from the tree, and they were getting sick and wondering why this GMO tree was so sickly looking. Well, the Bishops would tell their flock that "it's because the soil isn't good. We need to work on the soil". Or, "well, this tree isn't meant for this weather, so we need to bring in some experts to solve the problem." Or some other excuses...even though all the other ORIGINAL olive trees had grown fine and never had any problems. In other words, there was always a reason the tree wasn't healthy. "One day", the bishops would constantly say, "we'll get it right." That day, for 40 years, never came. Day after day, year after year, the trees all over the world were sick.
Then, 40 years later, new pope was elected and he said that the GMO olive trees which were meant to be shipped all over the dioceses were never planted by the bishops. What was planted at each diocese was NOT what was from the papal garden. So, he issued a "reform" of the bad trees, to try to repair the damage. He sent new soil, issued new guidelines and gardening methods, drew up the exact chemicals that each tree needed to be healthy and prosper. But still, the new trees did not get better and NEVER resembled the centuries-old, perfect, fruitful and healthy trees that all the dioceses had dug up to begin with.
Moral of the story: The NO that Pope Paul VI approved never made it to 95% of the dioceses and still hasn't, 50 years later.
This means that the NO in 95% of parishes, in the entire latin world, for the last 50 years, is NOT APPROVED BY THE CHURCH. And there's no plan for it to ever get there.
Did the Church fail? No. Did the Church fail when 95% of the catholic world was an arian heretic in the 300s? No.
Don't make excuses for the NO or the people that attend it. Most of the people in the 1960s who accepted the NO did so wholeheartedly. I've talked to many of them - they werent' duped, they weren't forced, they weren't blackmailed - most of them wanted the changes. They were tired of catholicism being "hard"...especially the priests. The post-war 1950s had softened the masses and the 60s had opened them up to immoral excesses and drugs. They were spiritually ripe for a loss of faith - and most accepted the false, sickly, new olive trees with full knowledge of their choice.
Those who've grown up in the 80s and 90s have not had a true catholic church to guide them. However, God had allowed Tradition to grow and flourish since then, as a "sign of contradiction" to those who still attend the NO. There are many who have found tradition in spite of their not knowing of it. God grants the truth to those who are open to it. We can't make excuses for those in the NO; on the contrary, we must tell them THE NO IS WRONG AND SINFUL, so that they will refuse the false mass and accept the True one. The hybrid olive oil trees need to be burned to the ground. They can't be fixed.