"I'm sure heretics can have their way with Latin just as well as English."
Doing things in English gives them a *lot* more leeway to pretend they're not up to anything.
We had an incident not too long ago up here in Yankeeland where a bishop misrepresented the contents of a letter from the Vatican.
I don't know if you've studied Latin or not. I've only dabbled a very little bit, myself. But it's enough to see how watered down, wimpified, and downright eviscerated a lot of things are in English as compared to Latin. And I don't think that's an accident. I think the ICEL did it on purpose.
There's nothing wrong with having good, accurate English translations of the Latin, but we need to get back to Latin as the language of the Church.
I accept the point you make, but, just maybe, the problem was a dodgy Bishop not the language. If every Bishop who should be fired was, there wouldn't be too many left.
Not to mention that it was one of a trinity of languages that accompanied the growth of Christianity from the cross itself onward. Latin is the codicil and treasure of the Western Christian church.
The ICEL did do it on purpose. You must also watch out
for the council of Bishops, thats where a lot of this
liberal stuff comes from.
Lets get things straight!!! Before V2 we had 80% attending
church, now 20%. I rest my case.