Re: Natural Language Praised


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


> You seem to think that Conversational Latin was heard regularly in the
> streets of the Vatican (or the Papal States before 1871) until John
> XXIII.

No. of course not.

> What Vatican II did was allow (and by now it has become, require)
> liturgies to be celebrated in the vernacular. That had no effect on the
> status of Latin in the RC Church, since no one not destined for the
> clergy or academia was learning it anyway.
>
> More effective might have been the encyclical Divine Afflante Spiritu,
> which in the 1940s permitted RC scholars to study the Hebrew, Aramaic,
> and Greek originals rather than just the official Latin.

Now that is really something. Before, did they not have permission to
study the originals?
Of course I am a Catholic, just not much of a believer, but a Catholic
still, and there are always surprises of a sort. Now I am going to look
for this Divine Affluente. Thank you very much for the information.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

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