"Sortid" history? That's not a term we have in the Catholic Church.
One question - why did the "Church" fight so strongly against having a Bible in languages other than Latin? Was it because they really believed that the "unwashed masses" couldn't understand, or was it to protect their power?
Mass was celebrated in Latin - a language chosen as a common language for the Universal (Catholic) Church. This was not an attempt to keep power - no matter what the Chick tracts tell you. The idea was that a Catholic could travel the world and hear the same Mass no matter where he or she was. This is a wonderful thing -- and something I wish we'd not gone away from after Vatican II.
>>One question - why did the "Church" fight so strongly against having a Bible in languages other than Latin?<<
People forget that the bible had already been translated into a lot of languages without any problems. Even St. Bede made an English translation of the Bible around the year 700.
Later translations were not well received mainly because they were rotten translations. That's why they were destroyed. We still have that problem (rotten translations) to this day.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15367a.htm
Who are you quoting?