". . .the so-called Tridentine office."

Sigh. I used that phrase in the post below. No, it wasn't meant to be an insult. "So-called" doesn't mean I don't like it. It means I don't think "Tridentine" is a very good description. If nothing else, as the late Fr. Bryan Houghton once pointed out, it sounds like something that's meant for people with three teeth. More to the point though, the basic format ante-dates the Council of Trent by, say, a thousand years? But what else to call it? With Cardinal Ratzinger, I very much like the term "classic Roman Rite" and not just because of its analogical resonance with the "Classic Coke" fiasco. "Gregorian Rite" is good, too, since in Pope St. Gregory the Great it refers to a much more relevant originator than the Council of Trent or Pope St. Pius V. Unfortunately, most people think you're only referring to the chant when you use that term. I usually use "traditional Roman rite" here. Not a few, however, think that refers to the Pauline rite done with Latin, incense, and no clowns. But if you want to be immediately understood, everyone knows what you mean when you say "Tridentine rite". Which brings us back to the fact that the term isn't really accurate. Hence "so-called".

So no insult intended. And, yes, I really do need to make up my mind whether "rite" should be capitalized.