It is. The Mid-South is *the* growth area of the Catholic Church in the US these days - English, Latin, and Spanish. We need top-notch Bishops who can pull the whole thing together.
I like to think that my family - Midwestern white people in the Hispanic Ministry - are on the front lines of integration. We just happened to have the music skills (my husband's) and the language skills (mine) that the parish needed. In a few years, I hope that everyone will have enough vocabulary ("Hi, howaya?" "Muy bien. Toma una Guinness?") that it won't matter whether we came from Oklahoma or Ecuador.
Or you can all speak Latin, and the origin of the individual will then make no difference.
Ave, Mrs. Chick!