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Before 1969, the Catholic Church's Mass was the Roman Rite, sometimes called the Tridentine Mass, because it was codified at the Council of Trent. Over the history of this Rite there have been small changes here and there but was essentially the same going back to the early Church. The Second Vatican Council called for certain reforms to the liturgy and those were made in 1965. The 1965 liturgy was translated into the common language and had a few other changes but was essentially the same Mass as the Church has always used. Then, in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI was created, a rupture from the past, changing many elements so to be very similar to a Protestant Lutheran service.

This is what Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger) had to say about this new rite--

“What happened after the Council was something else entirely: in the place of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over centuries, and replaced it – as in a manufacturing process – with a fabrication, a banal on -the-spot product. Gamber, with the vigilance of a true prophet and the courage of a true witness, opposed this falsification, and, indefatigably taught us about the living fullness of a true liturgy”. What, then, does this true prophet have to say about a reform which is, in reality, a continued revolution? “The pastoral benefits that so many idealists had hoped the new liturgy would bring did not materialize. Our churches emptied in spite of the new liturgy (or because of it?), and the faithful continued to fall away from the Church in droves.” And again: “In the end, we will all have to recognize that the new liturgical forms, well intentioned as they may have been at the beginning, did not provide the people with bread, but with stones.”

Since the issuance of this new liturgy, Catholics have largely stopped believing what the Catholic Church teaches. There's a saying, "Lex orandi, lex credendi" which is "The law of what is prayed is the law of what is believed." Change the Mass and the people will change what they believe. So what we have today is a crisis of faith. We've been in a state of recovery because Pope Benedict liberated the Latin Mass (before him, there were a few of us, not many) but he was followed by Pope Francis who hated the traditional liturgy and did all he could do to destroy it. Pope Benedict did something that cannot be undone, however. He allowed the Latin Mass to influence seminaries and parishes around the world and the Church today is on the path to resurgence. Pope Leo XIV doesn't quite understand why people want the Latin Mass but he is not ideologically opposed to it and will ultimately find a path for this reform (restoration) to continue.

The end result won't be the Latin Mass replacing the modern rite. It will influence the modern rite, establishing within it a character that was previously missing. There's many other nuances and points of discussion around this matter but I've typed enough for today.

Edit: The 1965 liturgy is not used anywhere now. For the most part we use the 1962 edition, keeping the Latin, but some communities use a pre-1962 edition, especially during Holy Week.