[Catholicguy]

Why would Rome not want the people to have any clue to what they were listening to

<> They did. Missals had Latin on one side of the opened Missal and the vernacular trranslation on the other side of the opened Missal. Your assumption is bizarre.

[Mike Fieschko]

Missals had Latin on one side of the opened Missal and the vernacular trranslation on the other side of the opened Missal.

Don't you know? ... It was illegal for Catholics to own a Bible Missal. They were kept chained up in libraries monasteries.

[ that's a joke, son ]