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I'm sure heretics can have their way with Latin just as well as English.

Speaking either, I'd be much happier if I heard our priests giving leadership. Three Sundays ago was "Respect Life" Sunday. Our priest managed to avoid mentioning both abortion and euthanasia in his 10 minute oration. Some effort in English or Latin!

"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.

You're very confused.

Homilies are not given in Latin.

When we cheer Latin we are talking about the prayers which have been intentionally mistranslated so as to give them a different meaning.

If you attend a Tridentine Mass you'll notice that the readings and homily are in the vernacular. Similarly, in the Novus Ordo, Latin will add great unity especially in America where so many languages are spoken in the same city.

I more strongly suspect that you know all this and are intentionally trying to confuse the issue.

###"Three Sundays ago was "Respect Life" Sunday. Our priest managed to avoid mentioning both abortion and euthanasia in his 10 minute oration. Some effort in English or Latin!"###

Your priest is probably afraid to lose parishioners?

I complained to my local pastor about teenagers receiving the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity with chewing gum in their mouths. His response was that he did not want to have them turn away or not come to Church. Finally, the Parochial Vicar on leave here for 3 years (Nigeria)mentioned it at one his masses.

The same priest has given homilies about abortion and euthanasia while the pastor has not covered that ground.

The pastor also mentioned receiving several letters criticizing his discussion on gay marriage. I have not heard anything thing, since.

I head up an interdenominational pro life group and the support from the parishioners has been terrible. Our group would be dead if we did not have the Evangelicals.

We have several Catholic MDs and their families and you could not get them within 1000 yards of one of our meetings.

If you want to hear pro life, euthanasia, gay rights etc. watch EWTN. Their Masses tell it like it is.