[Chancellor Palpatine]

Shouldn't Fr. Somerville have written his letter of resignation in Latin, since it is a far superior language in every way from English? In fact shouldn't Latin-rite advocates speak in Latin most of the time because of its superiority, resorting to vernacular only when dealing with their inferiors in the secular world?

He is rather mindlessly resorting to the cheap convenience of vernacular. After all, if you expect the laity to have to learn and understand a dead language in order to participate fully in liturgical life, the least the clergy can do is to use it in their daily business.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

Straw man argument.

Special occasions call for special language and dress. This is true of many, if not most, religions. The English in the Book of Common Prayer is not the same English used on the streets of London. Jews still use Hebrew at their services, but most use the vernacular at home and at business. And, if I'm not mistaken, even non-Arabian Mohammedans use Arabic in their prayers.

This should be a non-issue, were it not for the brutal and totalitarian methods by which the Modernists in the Church stamped out traditional practices.