John Carmel Heenan, damals Erzbischof von Liverpool, später Kardinal-Erzbischof von Westminster, über die Erste Sitzungsperiode des Konzils und die beginnende Debatte um die Volkssprache bei Roman Miscellany.
Über unser Heimatland und unsere Konzilsbischöfe schreibt er:
"Germans tend to favour the vernacular partly because they have so wonderfully developed popular singing and, generally speaking, the participation of the faithful in the sacred liturgy. The People’s Mass has long been a feature of the Church in Germany and is the envy of like-minded Catholics elsewhere. But it is possibly more difficult than enthusiasts realise to introduce this kind of disciplined participation to English congregations. Community exercises are easily taught in schools and other communities but there are formidable difficulties in attempting to organise English adults.
A second reason why the Germans advocate the vernacular is that a far larger proportion of their priests and people are interested in the ecumenical movement. They believe that Christian Unity will be promoted if the obstacle of Latin is removed. What is true of most (but not all) of the German bishops is also largely true of the French, Belgians and Dutch."
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