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To: Mr Rogers

In fairness, Father Reginald Foster, among the best Latinists at the Vatican and the leading one from the English speaking world, is a Marxist of the Maoist persuasion. He’s from Milwaukie, IIRC, and is certainly quite a character—but his Latin is hard to beat.

OTOH—almost certainly the working language of the document was either Spanish (more likely) or Italian. Even though JP II could do it in Latin, his drafts, IIRC, were often in Polish, and Pope Francis isn’t the linguist that JPII was.


24 posted on 11/27/2013 6:34:25 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

IIRC & OTOH - is that some sort of new age pig latin?


33 posted on 11/27/2013 6:53:24 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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