Re: Natural Language Praised


leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> do you mean I ought to find a better term?
>
> Latin is no longer alive. is it being kept alive in the Church? I read
> that Ratzinger was going to try and bring it back. Maybe he ought to,
> but what are the chances? I do not know, and I have not seen any debate
> about this.

I vaguely know that Latin was dropped or demoted as a working or
official
language of Vatican City only fairly recently.

I also know that Vatican radio had, and perhaps still has, Latin radio
broadcasts.

>
> I have been told that Hebrew has been revived 100%, but I am alsmost
> sure that is a different story. Also, it was not a recent development,
> not some kind of political program, but something that started way back
> in the 19th century.

.

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