[AnAmericanMother]

No - it's not so much that it's a "dead" language (it really isn't - how can any language that's actually on an ATM machine be "dead"?)

It's that it isn't the language of any surviving nationality today (if you don't count Vatican City) and is therefore universal. Nobody can be offended that it is being spoken, rather than "their" national language.

The bonus is that it's spoken universally throughout the Catholic church. You can go to a Latin Mass anywhere on earth, no matter what the local language is, and it's always exactly the same.

Plus, you can use it to communicate with other Latin speakers. I once had an Italian client (long story) who had no English, I had no Italian, but we spoke Latin and got along o.k. (for really important stuff we wrote, and had our offices translate, but on the phone it worked pretty well.)

[N3WBI3]

So:

Latin is not immutable (After all I doubt the word for ATM or checking account was around before banking)

Latin is not Dead (its spoken today)

Latin is universal (so is Japanese so its not really a huge advantage there)

The only thing you are saying is because the catholic church uses latin it has special power over satan..