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poche · « **Reply #15 on:** May 10, 2017, 12:11:49 AM »

Sacred sciences to be taught in Latin
5. In accordance with numerous previous instructions, the major sacred sciences shall be taught in Latin, which, as we know from many centuries of use, "must be considered most suitable for explaining with the utmost facility and clarity the most difficult and profound ideas and concepts."¹⁶ For apart from the fact that it has long since been enriched with a vocabulary of appropriate and unequivocal terms, best calculated to safeguard the integrity of the Catholic faith, it also serves in no slight measure to prune away useless verbiage.
Hence professors of these sciences in universities or seminaries are required to speak Latin and to make use of textbooks written in Latin. If ignorance of Latin makes it difficult for some to obey these instructions, they shall gradually be replaced by professors who are suited to this task. Any difficulties that may be advanced by students or professors must be overcome by the patient insistence of the bishops or religious superiors, and the good will of the professors.

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23veterum.htm

poche · « **Reply #16 on:** May 10, 2017, 11:24:11 PM »

A Latin Academy
6. Since Latin is the Church's living language, it must be adequate to daily increasing linguistic requirements. It must be furnished with new words that are apt and suitable for expressing modern things, words that will be uniform and universal in their application. and constructed in conformity with the genius of the ancient Latin tongue. Such was the method followed by the sacred Fathers and the best writers among the scholastics.
To this end, therefore, We commission the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities to set up a Latin Academy staffed by an international body of Latin and Greek professors. The principal aim of this Academy -- like the national academies founded to promote their respective languages -- will be to superintend the proper development of Latin, augmenting the Latin lexicon where necessary with words which conform to the particular character and color of the language.
It will also conduct schools for the study of Latin of every era, particularly the Christian one. The aim of these schools will be to impart a fuller understanding of Latin and the ability to use it and to write it with proper elegance. They will exist for those who are destined to teach Latin in seminaries and ecclesiastical colleges, or to write decrees and judgments or conduct correspondence in the ministries of the Holy See, diocesan curias, and the offices of religious orders.

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23veterum.htm

poche · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2017, 11:28:28 PM »

The teaching of Greek
7. Latin is closely allied to Greek both in formal structure and in the importance of its extant writings. Hence -- as Our Predecessors have frequently ordained -- future ministers of the altar must be instructed in Greek in the lower and middle schools. Thus when they come to study the higher sciences -- and especially if they are aiming for a degree in Sacred Scripture or theology -- they will be enabled to follow the Greek sources of scholastic philosophy and understand them correctly; and not only these, but also the original texts of Sacred Scripture, the Liturgy, and the sacred Fathers.¹⁷

^{http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23veterum.htm}

poche · « **Reply #18 on:** May 13, 2017, 12:40:26 AM »

A syllabus for the teaching of Latin
8. We further commission the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities to prepare a syllabus for the teaching of Latin which all shall faithfully observe. The syllabus will be designed to give those who follow it an adequate understanding of the language and its use. Episcopal boards may indeed rearrange this syllabus if circuмstances warrant, but they must never curtail it or alter its nature. Ordinaries may not take it upon themselves to put their own proposals into effect until these have been examined and approved by the Sacred Congregation.
Finally, in virtue of Our apostolic authority, We will and command that all the decisions, decrees, proclamations and recommendations of this Our Constitution remain firmly established and ratified, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, however worthy of special note.

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23veterum.htm

poche · « **Reply #19 on:** May 13, 2017, 11:26:16 PM »

1. The Latin language has always been held in very high esteem by the Catholic Church and by the Roman Pontiffs. They have assiduously encouraged the knowledge and dissemination of Latin, adopting it as the Church’s language, capable of passing on the Gospel message throughout the world. This is authoritatively stated by the Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientia of my Predecessor, Blessed John XXIII.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

poche · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2017, 11:31:43 PM »

Indeed the Church has spoken and prayed in the languages of all peoples since Pentecost. Nevertheless, the Christian communities of the early centuries made frequent use of Greek and Latin, languages of universal communication in the world in which they lived and through which the newness of Christ’s word encountered the heritage of the Roman-Hellenistic culture.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

poche · « **Reply #21 on:** May 16, 2017, 11:49:45 PM »

After the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, the Church of Rome not only continued to use Latin but, in a certain way, made herself its custodian and champion in both the theological and liturgical sectors as well as in formation and in the transmission of knowledge.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

poche · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2017, 05:48:47 AM »

2. In our time too, knowledge of the Latin language and culture is proving to be more necessary than ever for the study of the sources, which, among others, numerous ecclesiastical disciplines draw from, such as, for example, theology, liturgy, patristics and canon law, as the Second Vatican Ecuмenical Council teaches (cf. Decree Optatam Totius, n. 13).

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

poche · « **Reply #23 on:** May 18, 2017, 11:29:49 PM »

In addition, precisely in order to highlight the Church’s universal character, the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, the most important docuмents of the Papal Magisterium and the most solemn official Acts of the Roman Pontiffs are written in this language in their authentic form.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

poche · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2017, 11:55:14 PM »

3. Yet in today’s culture, the danger of an increasingly superficial knowledge of Latin may be noted in the context of the widespread weakening of humanistic studies. This is also a risk in the context of the philosophical and theological studies of future priests. Moreover in our own world, in which science and technology play such an important role, there is a renewed interest in the Latin culture and language and not only on those continents whose culture is rooted in the Greco-Roman heritage. This attention seems all the more meaningful since it not only involves academic and institutional sectors but also concerns young people and scholars from very different nations and traditions.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

songbird · « **Reply #25 on:** May 20, 2017, 07:29:43 PM »

Keep an "ear" to this poche New rome has something up their sleeve, called New Mass. There are plans that have been brewing at least 20 years that I know. The New Mass will be latin and more reverence and so on, but it is meant to round us all up under the new rome. More Schemes. BUT keep in mind, that there is no valid Holy Orders in new rome. No matter what looks like they are changing to good, they are not.

poche · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2017, 01:03:38 AM »

Quote from: songbird on May 20, 2017, 07:29:43 PM

Keep an "ear" to this poche New rome has something up their sleeve, called New Mass. There are plans that have been brewing at least 20 years that I know. The New Mass will be latin and more reverence and so on, but it is meant to round us all up under the new rome. More Schemes. BUT keep in mind, that there is no valid Holy Orders in new rome. No matter what looks like they are changing to good, they are not.

ARchbishop Lefebvre recognized the validity of the orders of the Novus Ordo.

songbird · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2017, 07:56:05 PM »

There is talk, that some SSPX are new order and are not getting conditionally ordained. If this is true, watch for more adventures.

poche · « **Reply #28 on:** May 21, 2017, 11:43:00 PM »

Quote from: songbird on May 21, 2017, 07:56:05 PM

There is talk, that some SSPX are new order and are not getting conditionally ordained. If this is true, watch for more adventures.

conditionally ordained by whom?

poche · « **Reply #29 on:** May 27, 2017, 04:28:19 AM »

4. It therefore appears urgently necessary to support the commitment to a greater knowledge and more competent use of Latin, both in the ecclesial context and in the broader world of culture. In order to give relevance and resonance to this undertaking the use of didactic methods in keeping with the new conditions and the promotion of a network of relations between academic institutions and scholars is particularly appropriate so as to make the most of the rich and multiform patrimony of the Latin civilization.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html

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