The church experience sounds confusing to the individual who didn't speak Latin. The scriptures were read by the priests and kept from church members. It sounds to me that it wasn't a matter of hiding something but wanting to protect members from misinterpretation of Bible doctrine. I can understand the church's fear but the truly devote Christian would want to be able to hold his religion in his hand and gain greater knowledge by reading it. I picture the Latin mass being like going to a foreign film were it is impossible to know what is really going on. If a person was expected to go to war for his religon then know what he is fighting for would be important.