In the course of an interesting piece in Sunday's Observer, about Roman Catholic Masses being crowded with enthusiastic and charismatic South Americans and others, comes this paragraph:
'The Tatler once wrote about how outre it was in high society to be Catholic,' says Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Tablet, 'but over 10 years we have become what we are supposed to be, a church which thinks and now comes from beyond these shores. I'm not suggesting it, but we've reached the point when there's a case for celebrating Mass in Latin as the nearest thing to a common language!'