Vatican puts Latin online

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Vatican puts Latin online
Latin, the official language of the Roman Catholic Church, on Friday took its place on the Vatican’s official website alongside six of its modern descendants.
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The new section at vatican.va, entitled “Sancta Sedes” (The Holy See), so far offers only basic Church documents such as the Bible, the catechism, Canon Law, the texts of the Second Vatican Council and papal speeches dating back to Pope John XXIII (1958-1963).
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Well that has been long enough in coming! 👍

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tee_eff_em said:
They’ve had a six-language interface for at least 10 years, and not one of them was the official language of the Church.

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I would think that this would matter to those who can only speak Latin. 🙂

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JimR-OCDS said:
Why is that?

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Because the documents of the Church are authortative only in Latin.

So, if we want to look up a particular section of Canon Law, or Sacrosanctum Concilium, and get the real ‘gist’; we need to go the Latin.
 
This is an intriguing thread. Putting Latin online will be recreation for Latin scholars. For most people, it will have no meaning because few know even basic vocabulary and grammar and far fewer have the professional grasp of the language necessary to read and comprehend, much less write, at an advanced level. As far as speaking goes, the last time I heard Latin spoken was on graduation day at Harvard where a department valedictorian gave his speech in Latin.

I know many older people who believed that Latin was a sacred language (kind of like Muslims and Arabic). One old man told me once that after the liturgy was changed to English he didn’t feel like he had been to church.
 
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This is an intriguing thread. Putting Latin online will be recreation for Latin scholars. For most people, it will have no meaning because few know even basic vocabulary and grammar and far fewer have the professional grasp of the language necessary to read and comprehend, much less write, at an advanced level. As far as speaking goes, the last time I heard Latin spoken was on graduation day at Harvard where a department valedictorian gave his speech in Latin.

I know many older people who believed that Latin was a sacred language (kind of like Muslims and Arabic). One old man told me once that after the liturgy was changed to English he didn’t feel like he had been to church.
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I think you missed the mark here. There are many young people who prefer the TLM. There is something for anyone, NO or TLM.
 
There still isn’t Latin option on the www.vatican.va homepage where all the other languages are listed. How is anyone supposed to know about this?:confused:
 
Very cool! I won’t be able to read it though as I don’t know Latin. Thankfully I am sure they are keeping the English language version of their site as well. 🙂
 
Lingua Latina defuncta est,
perspicuissime.
Romanos antiquos occidit
et nunc occidit me.
 
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