>>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
Great point -- people get so wrapped in the hype of the snake handler fundies/Jack Chick apostles that they lose sight of actual history.