27. Because by means of ambiguity, the New Mass pretends to please Catholics while pleasing Protestants; thus it is “double-tongued” and offensive to God who abhors any kind of hypocrisy: “Cursed be . . . the double-tongued for they destroy the peace of many” (Sirach 28:13).
This reason has two parts, the latter dependent on the former. I have no problem with the idea that something double-tongued is offensive to God. The question here is whether the New Mass is “double-tongued.”
Yet again this objection does not offer anything specific as to what kind of ambiguity the New Mass pleases Protestants with. As I have mentioned before, I have not met or heard of a Protestant who finds the New Mass particularly Protestant. In fact, the only comments I have heard in favor of it over the traditional Mass is that it is offered in the vernacular. Every other Protestant objection to the Mass is found both in the traditional and revised liturgy.
Further, it might be good to note that perhaps this ambiguity pleases Catholics while pretending to please Protestants, we just can’t know. That’s the problem with ambiguity, it is just so ambiguous. A claim of ambiguity is simple not convincing of anything. The New Mass is still abhorred by many Protestants for being so opposed to their tradition, they simply are not pleased by it.
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