At a recent liturgical conference in Rome, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka “underlined the importance of Latin in the liturgy and did this, interestingly, as the bishop of a diocese whose native language has no Latin roots,” said Dom Alcuin Reid, the conference’s principal organizer. “Yet even for such a people, he pointed out, it serves to enhance people’s connection with Christ in the liturgy.”
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