[Maine Mariner]

I am not Roman Catholic, but I love the Latin mass.
In part because of it, at age 72 I took two semesters of introduction to Latin on-line at the University of Maine, Orono.

[katana]

You took the words out of my mouth. There is a beauty in the Latin which puts one into communion (pun intended) with 2 thousand years of Western Christianity. Taking the Roman out of the Roman Catholic Church, and worst outlawing a tradition of two millennia standing, is offensive even to those of us outside the church.