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One huge obstacle to the traditional Latin Mass is that Catholic schools have closed and Latin is not taught much anywhere. It can reverse with computer/online instruction but we're two generations into the decline.

One could argue if Catholics will require computer/online instruction to learn Latin, why not teach them Aramaic instead?

14 posted on 07/19/2021 11:09:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Any liberal arts college worth its salt has a classics department, and they all teach Latin. It's classical Latin, not ecclesiastical Latin, but the difference is not tremendous.

But the only people who are required to have some fluency in Latin for the Latin Mass are the priests offering it, and a Catholic seminary which doesn't teach Latin is ... a very bad seminary, because that would mean its graduates can't read Catholic theology except in translation.

16 posted on 07/19/2021 11:30:31 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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I every TLM missal there is the vernacular translation either on the facing page or the same page as the Latin. A semester of Latin is completely not needed to assist at the TLM.


20 posted on 07/19/2021 11:55:45 AM PDT by G. W. McLintock
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