I (not a Catholic) always thought it should have been left in Latin, precisely because it would be the same anywhere in the world one went.
(As an extra boon, most of the Catholic kids I knew who went to Catholic schools, actually LEARNED Latin - never a bad thing ;-)
-JT
Best analysis on the thread.
Having attended Catholic school many moons ago and taught by nuns, one year of Latin was mandatory. Did me a world of good.
That’s apparently because you have a brain in your head. I don’t know that we learned Latin but we were exposed to it and that led some Catholics to study it in high school. I did - I studied Latin 101 from a lovely Irish-Catholic named Mr. O’Hale!
I had to study Latin for five years. I would never say I “knew Latin”, but I could read Latin and understand it. To this day, it helps me understand the meaning of words, because I can recognize the Latin roots of the word.