I was raised Catholic. I served as an altar boy for three years before, after 2000 years, they changed from Latin to English. That’s when they lost me...I’m now a card carrying agnostic.
It’s said that as one gets older, one gets wiser. That doesn’t apply to “infallible” institutions.
I rejoined a traditional Latin Mass community in Jnauary, and haven’t looked back. The TLM is growing by leaps and bounds, and when we have a sung (Gregorian Chant Missa Solemnis) Mass, there are 10 altar boys an a church packed with families with young children.
It’s time for you to come home, gorush.
I don’t think Latin was an “official” Church language until (maybe) the 7th or 8th Century. Most of the Gospels were written in Greel, and most of the early followers of Christ probably spoke the same language as Him (Aramaic).
"Eek, and now English? Too much! There's probably no God!"
You would have been a "card carrying agnostic" during the early centuries of Christianity too then, since the Mass was in GREEK in those days, not Latin. Most of the Catholic liturgical words come from Greek, including the word "Catholic" itself (from the Greek "katholikos", meaning "universal") The Latin Mass didn't start until the fourth century A.D., and even then it was only commonplace in the western churches. Certainly Jesus and the apostles knew nothing of Latin.
I invite you back to the Church, gorush!