WI no Vatican 2

If you think "were you there" is bad in a Catholic hymnal just wait until you see what a bunch of hippie Anglicans can do to it.

Heh. But actually, I have to say that the first good rendition of it that I ever heard was during Holy Week at Grace Cathederal in San Francisco, which I'd reckon is pretty much the central headquarters of hippie Anglicanism(former home base of Bishop Pike and all).
 
The rise of Protestantism in Latin America started about the same time as Vatican II was made. I'm not sure if it was ever correlated, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I believe there is a certain narrative put out by conservatives to the effect that evangelical protestantism in Latin America came about as a reaction against left-wing developments in the RCC. But I think it also might be as simple as the long-noted trend toward protestantism among upwardly mobile capitalists, not neccessarily related directly to what was going on in their former churches at the time of conversion.

South Korea saw a big rise in protestantism in the latter half of the twentieth century, partly building on pre-existing missionary work, but also probably just because people were becoming more affluent and the gospel as preached in those churches just sort of jibed with that. Not likely a reaction against Vatican II, since I doubt most of the converts were former Catholics.

I do believe Korean protestantism was seen as a reaction, though possibly a subtle one, against the strictures of Confucianism. So there was an aspect of rebellion against the standing orthodoxy. Possibly Latin American evangelicals see protestantism as more amicable to their social aspirations than Catholicism, but now I'm kind of speculating.
 

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Did they? I was not aware. Perhaps you are right, and Latin was in broader use than I had thought.

How close is Latin to Spanish, or French? How well could people in the colonial empires and Catholic Europe understand the Mass?

About 1/3 of US officers in Italy in WW2 would have been able to speak Latin. Or put another way, transport US Forces in Italy in 1942 to the Roman empire of 100 AD, and what happens. The officer goes up and talks to the locals.
 
Perhaps a revival of other non Latin non local forms of the mass could happen? There is a syrianic mass throughout Lebanon, and Syria. Also groups of bishops in mass, could serve as a check on the Curia. As late as 1920 bishops in certain countries are elected by their peers, or as advised by national rulers.
 
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