Talk:St. Finbar Catholic Church and School (Burbank, California)

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I think the phrase: one of the first U.S. Catholic parishes to offer Spanish-language Mass in the early 1990s is problematic. In the Los Angeles area alone, dozens of Spanish language parishes and missions were established by then Bishop John Joseph Cantwell in the 1920's in response to the influx of Mexican Catholic refugees fleeing the Cristero War. There have been separate Spanish language Masses at parishes throughout California for decades. If it comes to that, the original vernacular language of the Catholic Church in California is Spanish. This phrase needs significant modification or elimination. ClaudeMuncey (talk) 02:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note. The source that I based the comments on (from the Los Angeles Times) indicated that St. Finbar's was one of the first Catholic churches in California to offer Spanish-language Mass, when it began doing so in the early 1990s, and that it was a highly controversial move.  You mentioned that there were Spanish-language Masses offered decades earlier, and I was wondering if you could direct me to a source to help provide clearer information.  I grew up in the post-Vatican II era and therefore assumed that all Masses in the era of Spanish rule and in the time of Archbishop Cantwell (1917-1947) were offered in Latin, rather than either Spanish or English.  Cbl62 (talk) 05:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC)