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To: NYer
When Cardinal Angelo Scola, the Patriarch of Venice, opened the synod, he gave his address entirely in Latin, sending many of the 241 participants rushing for headsets to hear a translation.

This is the result of 40 years of a gross and deliberate disobedience on the part of the bishops.

Canon 249 of the Code of Canon Law:

The program for priestly formation is to make provision that the students are not only carefully taught their native language but also that they are well skilled in the Latin language...
Does anyone want to make a wager on whether the bishops will come into compliance with this canon on their own accord?
49 posted on 10/24/2005 2:57:40 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

Seminarians are overloaded in the language requirements. Most are required to be fluent in Spanish, then they have a little Latin and less Greek, throw in some Hebrew, and they're not going to remember much of anything. Especially with the failure of the American educational system to systematically teach language, it's a recipie for linguistic neglect.


62 posted on 10/25/2005 1:38:07 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (Be not Afraid. "Perfect love drives out fear.")
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