So, your daily homework assignment would be done in English, but your valedictory address or senior thesis or speech to a learned society might be done in Latin.
Educated people were expected to know Latin, and maybe Greek, even before they were expected to know non-native foreign modern languages.
The vocabularies of many of the professions, from music to law to medicine are still rich in Latin vocabulary and phraseology.
This is not mere posturing or affectation: The concepts of law and medicine and music that the ancients used daily are the same concepts we use daily in the professions. We have built on their knowledge and wisdom, as conservatives, and want to preserve what they did, not destroy or remake it.
All this probably stems from the remnant of civilization that was preserved after the Dark Ages became the Middle Ages, and this continued until the Renaissance, during which epochs Latin was a means of preserving and conveying knowledge ancient and modern.
So in a way the departure from this solid tradition occurred in 1962, and efforts to reestablish the Latin Mass are just another way of reconnecting with and establishing unity with a saner period in human history.
In case you have not noticed, there is nowadays an almost complete abandonment of logic, learning, and preservation of knowledge.
Modern men and children are clueless barbarians compared with people from just a generation or two before.
Rhetoric, argument, logic, mathematics are all considered silly to the tattooed primitive ape-men of today.
Even worse, modern ape-men are so stupid and feral that they are almost incapable of reproducing themselves to continue on the species.
No surprise to me that faithful men ("rigid" or "insecure" men in popespeak) want to connect with the most powerful spiritual force and culture from ancient times until modern ones, to-wit the Catholic Church. And no surprise they seek, in their faith, a retreat and a tonic from the horrible atheo-satanism and nihilism of the modern hipster age.
Whereas, the Vatican 2 clowns, present pope included, want to mix up Holy Catholic culture with the feculent humanist hipster culture so as to make it (somehow they believe this makes sense) palatable and inviting to the snowflakes.
I’m sure you’ve noticed a phenomena, perhaps caused by a bacteria, that journalists or even real people don’t even know when a Greek or Latin word is singular or plural.
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