[Dominick]

Spanish and French speakers for example, aren't likely to understand something said in Latin any better than you, an English speaker, are likely to understand it.

I am a French Speaker. The dialects of Italian are so far removed from one another as to make Sicilians unintelligible all over Italy. Latin was the root, and is still used as the official language of the Church. Latin is still alive. Burgundian, that would be a dead language. Same with old low German, which morphed into English.

Anyway you asked I answered. It appears you were not interested in the answer.

[Melas]

Anyway you asked I answered. It appears you were not interested in the answer

Then I didn't make myself clear, because my question hasn't really been answered. My question is simple: What is the point of a service in a language that the majority of those in the pews, don't understand? I think we can safely say that there aren't a lot of folks who understand the Latin. The whole idea of translation in the service guide is proof of that. Why not have services in the native tongues of those in the pews?