Good Pope John, A Saintly Lay Man and Latin in the Liturgy

"The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular."
Blessed John XXIII, Veterum Sapientia, 1962

"Fyrst in many places they sange the servyce in theyr mother tonge, men and women and all and that was a prety sporte for them for a whyle. But after a lytell use thereof, the pleasure of the newel tye passed and they set somewhat lesse thereby than by a thre mannes song {a convivial song sung in parts}. They chaunged also the masse and sone after that many cast it up clene."
The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, Complete Works of Thomas More, vol. VIII, pt. 1, (Yale University Press, 1973), p.126




Food for thought...