It appears from the article on the Catholic News Agency, that this was instituted so that we can gain a better understanding of the teachings of the Church. Perhaps our translations of early encyclicals and of the early Church fathers are less than what could be construed from the original Latin. I suspect that the translations we have are not lacking in content, but might there be richer meanings and contextual understandings that we can gain in Latin? I think it’s very interesting and it makes me want to do a crash course.
I suspect that if it is absolutely limited to such a scope, there will not be much impact.
Attributed to certain branches of Latin scientific academia like medical, pharmaceutical and botanical names unless such archives are re-written for the sake modernity.
I think that was the point. This document is a commitment to the use of Latin as the theological standard. It would be like if we were to establish a commitment to standard English measurements during a time when there was a popular push for the metric system. Other languages will need to conform around the Latin, as we have seen in the updated English Mass translation. I can not help but think that this will make learning Latin at every level more desirable to many. If I lived in France, learning French would be more desirable than learning Spanish.
I think it is another attempt by the Holy Father to revisit Sacrosanctum Concilium in the hope that we might regain an authentic understanding of what the council actually taught:
Read the Moto Proprio for yourself, it’s not at all long
