[allendale]

Arturo: If your professor ever said anything nice or truthful about Catholicism, he would be denied tenure and probably lose his pathetic job. However if you want to hear him speak positively and never say anything negative, wait until he discusses Islam.

[Nifster]

You basic premise is faulty. What your professor said is indeed correct and is recorded in history books as well as religious history books.

You can be offended all you wish that does not change facts. In the US the roman ‘mass’ is not typically celebrated in Latin. Your lack of understanding of what Vatican II was all about or the changes in the church in the last forty years. Sorry to burst your bubble. Feelings are not facts. Being offended is not about dealing with history

[lastchance]

You lack comprehension as defined in Liberal Academia. You took the Prof’s statement at face value and formulated a very reasonable and truthful response to correct his errors. Trouble is what the Prof really meant was,

“I don’t like what the Catholic Church teaches about sex.” Every argument against the Church by a progressive is really about that. In their view the Church is repressive regarding all things sexual. To illustrate the truth of this they must demonstrate how the Church has been repressive throughout history. No doubt to them a Church that suppresses sexual freedom by holding to the standard of sex within marriage must have suppressed other freedoms as well.

Your professor has no interest in the truth. He is only interested in showing how the Church has stymied human progress age after age after age. Oh to these people human progress is measured by how much religion has been silenced in the public square.

[virgil]

Couldn’t the same be said of the medical profession, the legal profession? The universities at the time taught everything in Latin. You seem pretty smart. Ever study Philosophy? Even today, it’s written so most people can’t understand any of it.

[Campion]

The Mass was originally translated into Latin (from the Greek) because that was the vernacular in the West at the time.

Even later on -- until relatively recent times, in fact --all educated people in the West were educated in Latin anyway. It wasn't like it was some secret code available only to a few.

[Daffy]

Wow; great essay, great research, well assembled; a splendid work.

[LisaFab]

Wonderfully done Arturo! May God bless you for your witness!

[al_c]

Excellent response.

Did you get an A? ;-)