NYT's first take on the Motu Proprio

The New York Times has released its advance coverage before the MP's release: "Wider Use of Latin Mass Likely, Vatican Officials Say."

If this article proves to be typical of the treatment the MSM gives to the MP's release, I don't think we have too much to worry about. Sure, all the old complaints and cheap jabs are there, but so are some decent (albeit out of context) quotations from the likes of Fr. Fessio and a pro-Trid. grad student studying in Rome.

The article does give an undo weight to the resistance of some bishops against the promulgation of the MP, but the account also includes the distinction that the issue here "is not a compulsory return to the Tridentine rite."

In any case, I hope Fr. Z will take a look at the article sometime and give us his opinion.

Update: Fr. Z - happily - appears to agree in substance with my diagnosis: "All in all, this wasn’t too bad was it?" Do check his post out to get the play-by-play.