Tridentine Mass

So the Pope is apparently about to make it easier for Catholics to worship like they did in the old days - with the priest speaking purely in latin to the altar rather than the parishioners (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201563.html?referrer=email). First, not being Catholic, I don't really care too much. It's not like either my father or Tom Leland are going to start preaching in Latin. And second, I'm not saying that Latin mass can't be beautiful - I'm sure it can be very moving. Also, to be fair, the Pope is not saying that everyone must start speaking latin, he's only making it easier to do so.

Still, it seems like a bad idea in general to me. Services in English can be beautiful as well, and you know what's going on. Most Latin masses throughout history consisted of the priest mumbling to the altar in psuedo-latin. He could be saying anything he wanted. It's not like Latin is really the holiest of languages. He could easily just quote Roman graffiti:

Quisquis amat. veniat. Veneri volo frangere costas
fustibus et lumbos debilitare deae.
Si potest illa mihi tenerum pertundere pectus
quit ego non possim caput illae frangere fuste?

Whoever loves, go to hell. I want to break Venus's ribs
with a club and deform her hips.
If she can break my tender heart
why can't I hit her over the head?

How many people would really know the difference? I'm not anti-Catholic by any means - I know a number of devout Catholics whom I respect greatly (sounds like I'm saying I've got a black friend doesn't it?). Neither do I have illusions about protestantism. I just disagree more with the Catholic system in place, not to mention the insistance that it not be questioned. I think it makes it easy to assume that what's important isn't belief, but just showing up.