...assuming the "Motu Proprio" isn't just a ruse in the first place...

From an editorial, entitled "The Church in retreat", published today by the French leftist national daily Le Monde, the newspaper of the French political mainstream:

A papal decree will liberalize, in May, the ancient rite of the Church (Mass in Latin, with the back turned to the people). It is a measure dreaded by a majority of French Catholics, led by the episcopate, attached to the legacy of the council of the 1960s. If, in his recent "apostolic exhortation", Benedict XVI proclaims his fidelity to Vatican II, his liturgical legalism delights the militants of ancient tradition. These struggles are largely misunderstood by those, believers or not, for whom the vocation of Christianity expresses itself more through aid to marginalized populations than through this disciplinary legalism [lit.: pointillisme], more on help to those who suffer than on this reactionary temptation.

Yes... People keep on talking about it with me, but it doesn't seem as though they are planning on releasing it any time soon.  They may just have the rumour going about it to keep us trads happy.  Who knows?  All we can do it pray and maintain hope, because God will help His Church when the time is right.

Reminds me of the constant talk of "another attack", accompanied by the bogus color-coded threat levels.  False fear, false expectation.