Some Whine to go with that?

NCR has provided the beverage
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2007c/072007/072007w.htm to accompany the Stinking B. Cheese linked below:

"the avalanche of commentary the Latin Mass issue has generated comes from small minorities with vested interests."

Are they being funny? are they knowingly and ironically adding their "vested interest" commentary to this "avalanche"?

"Rembert Weakland, then archbishop of Milwaukee, wrote what must now be seen as a prophetic article in America magazine in 1999 that warned of a creeping rubricism and movement to reinterpret Vatican II to assure validity and orthodoxy. Like Weakland, we have to ask: 'Can the two, the reform of the liturgy and the reform of the church, be separated?'”

I would answer the self-destroying prelate, "no."

They cannot be separated.
Likewise, the degradation and deforming of the Liturgy went hand in hand with the degradation that the Church went through.
The wreckovations of sanctuaries were part and parcel of the decimation of our congregations.
The guillotine-like attempt to sever our contemporary worship from any connection with what had gone before was mirrored in the disconnectedness of so many cultural Catholics (two lost generations!) from both their traditions and Tradition.

And BXVI is remedying what well-meaning but deeply disturbed individuals such as yourself, Abbot Weakland, have wrought.