" Most assumed this was due to the fact that church services (with the exception of occasional brief homilies) were in Latin, a language that almost no one in the pews could understand. Thus, it was believed that as the Reformations ushered in preaching in the local vernaculars, widespread public ignorance would end. But it didn’t. In part, because so few people came to church. In part, because so many who came paid no attention. And, in part, because the emergence of a much better-trained clergy resulted in preaching that was ‘far above the capacity of most of their listeners’. "

― Rodney Stark , Reformation Myths: Five Centuries Of Misconceptions And (Some) Misfortunes