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Presumably the translations were done by Vatican translators.

Yup, and they are as reliable as American bureaucrats on this stuff. The only authoritative one would eiter be the original (which could be in any language) or in most cases the official Latin.

Heck, an EXTREMELY inaccurate translation of the 1970 Mass was performed by ICEL, and it took about FORTY YEARS and serious attention of a liturgically minded Pope (Benedict XVI) to correct a lot of it.

Were has there been raw capitalism anywhere on Earth in the past 150 years

Not much, but there is an intellectual movement pushing for it, both among conservatives and some anarchist types. While some here would oppose anti-trust laws of any kind, they are a response to what happens when one capitalist "wins the game" to such an extent that competition is permanently locked out? This stuff was certainly happening in the U.S. in the late 19th century. One could check out Rerum Novarum for Pope Leo XIII's landmark response to the times.