Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Policing Latin and other perfectly legitimate modes of liturgical expression is petty, ignorant, clericalist and insulting…

A few weeks ago, I attended Mass in a diocese where the bishop has not only declared war on the Traditional Latin Mass, but on Latin, period. You can’t have Latin in your Masses more than twice a month or something silly like that. On my travels, I left that place and arrived in a bordering diocese and attended Sunday Mass in the Cathedral parish, a Mass which was full of Latin. Novus Ordo, but every Mass part in Latin – rather creatively sung – for the Gloria, for example, congregation and choir alternating. But, yeah, Latin.