Some Bishops just do not get it

In late June, in anticipation of Pope
Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summum Pontificum, Bishop Patrick Cooney of Gaylord, Mich., instructed his priests that all Masses must be celebrated in English, and that if any priest wanted to offer Mass in another language, supposedly Latin, a variance must be received from the chancery.
At the “Thrown Back” blog, Mich­igan priest Fr. Rob Johansen observed: “But this directive certainly sends a signal, doesn’t it? It telegraphs to ev­ery priest ‘Latin Is NOT Welcome in the Diocese of Gaylord.’ Given this di­rective, how many priests would be likely to request ‘permission’ to cele­brate Mass in the language of the Church? If any priest is inclined to do so, he is now placed on notice that he risks offending the Powers That Be.
“Bishop Cooney also mandated that Communion under both kinds must be offered at every liturgy cele­brated in his diocese. Which could also be seen as a dig against the Ex­traordinary Form, seeing as Commun­ion under both kinds is never offered to the faithful in liturgies of the EF.”