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To: wideawake

What Latin text? Bergoglio has eschewed Latin.

The official text is Italian.


32 posted on 06/17/2015 6:05:33 AM PDT by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: jtal

There will be a Latin text. Most encyclicals have been composed principally in Italian for the past 100 years or more: long gone are the days when every bishop was expected to be a Latinist.


34 posted on 06/17/2015 6:08:09 AM PDT by wideawake
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