Left-leaning Cardinal Zuppi celebrates traditional Vespers

I forgot to mention the ff:

I think the RSV is based on the KJV, which in turn was based on not just the Vulgate but also the Greek NT and the authoritative Hebrew Bible, or the Masoretic Text (MT) which was made hundreds of years after the Greek translation of the OT.

The RSV was made because more people had difficulty understanding archaic English. The Catholics wanted the other books of the Bible included, so a Catholic edition came out. This was used in various regions of the world.

Meanwhile, U.S. citizens had difficulty understanding idiomatic expressions used in England and elsewhere, among others, so the New American Bible was made for them. That, in turn, stemmed from a translation based on the Vulgate, which in turn could not refer to the MT because it was made hundreds of years earlier.

I think scholars discovered that the MT was significantly accurate, so they consulted that as well for translation.

Both the RSV and the NAB were published before new manuscript discoveries like the Dead Sea Scrolls became widely available, and they helped in plugging in holes and clarifying certain terms in the OT, so updated translations like the NRSV and the NABRE came out.

But the updates were not fully completed, and there were some more ideas from scholarship coming in, so a new version, the NRSVue, came out. In the same light, a new version of NABRE will appear by 2025, this time one that can be used not only for personal study but also for catechism and liturgy.

Finally, that last point is notable. I think the translators are funded independently, and at the same time can only earn enough if licenses for their translations are obtained by Bible publishers. Publishers, in turn, are studying the markets, by looking at buyers' reading levels and views concerning gender neutrality, etc. I'm guessing that the Church is doing the same.

This explains why the liturgy uses older translations of the Bible: the Church does not accept certain translations because they are used in prayer and Catholics aren't familiar with them (e.g., "Greetings, favored one" instead of "Hail, Mary").

This also implies that the new version of NABRE is important, because the translators will have to do that by working with the U.S. Bishops and the Vatican.

With that, one can see that the Church has slowly been realizing that the language used in liturgy, Scriptures, etc., is selected based on what the faithful can understand, and what the faithful can understand is connected to various societal factors, including reading level.

Those are all universities where Latin is offered as an optional subject.  They aren't schools where Latin was considered necessary as requirements for some strains of higher education.  Latin isn't a requirement for those anymore.  Medicine, law, science, theology.  It served Europeans and their colonies but it is a big diverse world out there and Latin no longer has relevance in any dominant way.

It helps understand the roots of numerous languages - that's certainly true - as would a study of Greek. It was still on the syllabus in Ireland long after it was removed in England in state schools for the most part. I can recall using my cousin Patrick Mary's Latin dictionaries he gave me to translate things in books, well roughly translate anyway.

For a supposedly 'dead' language it gets some exciting and heated conversations going.

Greek has been much less common in US at high school level for many decades. Although nowadays there are likely some private schools that offer it. People used to argue a bit over Latin even back when I was a teen, because of its being a "dead language." Many people objected to the idea of spending time learning a dead language when one could instead learn a current language (usually Spanish was the one suggested) and use it to communicate better with Spanish speaking people in US or on the border, and thus build neighborly bridges or go into social justice work.

At my high school you could choose only one language, either Spanish, French, or Latin, and had to take it for four years. If not pushed by my parents to take Latin I likely would have chosen French. As it turned out I took several years of French some years later at community college so I ended up with a working knowledge of both languages anyway.

I think a case can be made, that some study of Latin would help students expand their vocabularies in English.  It certainly couldn't hurt.

Due to the byzantine requirements our state imposes upon homeschoolers, we will "max out" our foreign language requirement with two years of French, that on top of a semester of ASL that my son insisted on studying, but in Grade 11 I am going to squeeze in a one-semester course I am calling "Just Enough Latin", concentrating upon Latin phrases used in English, as well as some very basic grammar and study of the main parts of the Traditional Latin Mass, including the St Michael prayer.  My son has a picture of St Michael the Archangel in his bedroom.  It's this one, courtesy of TFP, a group for which I only carry a very limited amount of water, I find the whole Plinio thing kind of cultish.  I do like their promotion of Fatima as well as their pro-life work, but that's about it.