Can you imagine

the garbled news items we'd get if the Vatican posted their news releases only in Latin?

Latin resurrected... on Vatican website

Despite being more liberal in my liturgical leanings than some people (particularly the young Catholics on the internet), I don't have a problem with the resurrection of Latin in the Church, even as a liturgical language in some instances. What the Pope has to be careful of, in his desire to reintroduce the attitude of reverence that he must feel is missing from the liturgy since Vatican II, is that the Mass doesn't become an object of attendance out of duty again, with the congregation only there to witness the actions, because they can't hear or understand the words.

I think if the Church were to draw back all the people alienated by the introduction of the vernacular into the liturgy it would be a small number in comparison to the whole body, but if they were to alienate those who feel positive towards the vernacular they may be looking at even more rapidly declining numbers. In this case you really can't put the genie back into the bottle...