Spanish speaking people are rapidly becoming the largest minority in this country, and if demographic predictions are right, will soon be the majority in many areas. They are already a majority of Catholics in many areas. They are our fellow Catholics in our parishes and dioceses, and if the Church has made Mass in the vernacular the norm, they have a right to Mass in the vernacular. Polish, Italian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, German and other immigrants of earlier eras had their own priests to minister to them in their own language, and those ethnic parishes are still operational in many large cities (like Cleveland) although some of the parishes have followed their congregations out to the suburbs.
this is not a new conflict or phenomenon in the Catholic Church. Get over it. Almost every parish that offers a Spanish Mass also offers an English Mass, and many parishes offer Masses in 3 or more languages. Choose the one that meets your needs, but don’t use that as an excuse to be inhospitable and uncharitable to your brother Catholics.
get over this hostility. it has the potential to harm the Church.
