On Sunday evening Damian Thompson posted an edited transcript from the reporters’ meeting with Cardinal Castrillon. I’d recommend looking at the whole of it. These are some of the notable passages:

This celebration, the Gregorian one, was the celebration of the Church during more than a thousand years . . . . Others say one cannot celebrate with the back to the people. This is ridiculous. The Son of God has sacrificed himself to the Father, with his face to the Father. It is not against the people. It is for the people . . . . [At this point, Iosephus is chanting: "Hoyos! Hoyos! Hoyos!"]

Damian Thompson: So would the Pope like to see many ordinary parishes making provision for the Gregorian Rite?

CC: All the parishes. Not many – all the parishes, because this is a gift of God. He offers these riches, and it is very important for new generations to know the past of the Church. This kind of worship is so noble, so beautiful – the deepest theologians’ way to express our faith. The worship, the music, the architecture, the painting, makes a whole that is a treasure. The Holy Father is willing to offer to all the people this possibility, not only for the few groups who demand it but so that everybody knows this way of celebrating the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

This question from Elena Curti, the reporter from The Tablet, is the best ever:

Your Eminence, I think many Catholics are rather confused by this new emphasis on the Tridentine Rite, mainly because we were taught that the new Rite represented real progress, and many of us who have grown up with it see it as real progress, that there are Eucharistic ministers, women on the sanctuary, that we are all priests, prophets and kings. This new emphasis to many of us seems to deny that.

It was a good think that D.T. was at the interview to keep this woman in place. At anyy rate, we have nothing to fear from her kind in the long run: they’re dying (all contraception and NFPed to the max), no new priests, no new religious, etc. I’m starting to chant again: “Hoyos! Hoyos! Hoyos!”