This will sound technical or uninteresting to some, I know. But it is an absolute nuclear bomb. Catholic World News is reporting what some of us have long suspected: the Pope uses the pre-Vatican II missal for his private Mass every day.

There was a time when the Orwellians who run the chanceries considered you totally out of bounds for saying so much as a kind word for the old missal. (Here, on the other hand, is what civilized people said -- link for informational purposes only.) What are they going to do now?

Checkmate, says Benedict.