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To: Clemenza
Be careful. If you believe certain folks on this site, Jesus spoke Latin.

No one made such a claim. Latin is still used as a working language of the Catholic Church is because it is a dead language, meaning the definition of its words are fixed, helping to communicate precise theological terms and concepts.

83 posted on 10/14/2005 11:12:58 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Blessed Pius IX, pray for us!)
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To: Pyro7480

I like to refer to the Latin fetishists as "Jeromites" because if it weren't for St. Jerome, there would be no scripture in Latin.


85 posted on 10/14/2005 11:17:10 AM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: Pyro7480

Sure, what about those of us Catholics who do NOT use the Latin rite or Latin in any way, shape or form.

I don't oppose Latin in the Latin Church, but I do have a problem with the idea that Latin=Catholic. The Latin language contributed to the schism with the Greek East because it is NOT as precise of a language as Greek to dealing with abstract theological terms. The filioque is a prime example of how the Latin language mangled theology.

Why not Church Slavonic, Syriac, Classical Armenian, Byzantine Greek or Ge'ez?


115 posted on 10/14/2005 9:36:11 PM PDT by JohnRoss (We need a real conservative in 2008)
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