Buried deep within the 16 final approved decrees of the Council was ambiguous language, time bombs, deliberately planted to be used later when these decrees were interpreted and implemented. Several prominent prelates tried to raise a warning cry during the Council, but their warnings seemed preposterous: change the Mass into a service that Protestants could accept, abolish Latin as the official language of the Church, altar girls, standing for Communion, take the focus off God and place it on one another? Never.