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Cardinals call on Pope to save Latin from last rites
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. Nothing could have better illustrated the Church's fading proficiency in its own language. One of the synod's 50 'propositions' to the Pope is that the language should feature prominently in Masses at major international events, where Catholics speaking many different languages are present. According to reports, only one synod participant spoke Latin every time he took the microphone: Latvian Cardinal Janis Pujats, the Archbishop of Riga. He did the same at the previous synod in 2001, when a disconsolate Pope John Paul II commented: "Paupera lingua latina, ultimum refugium habet in Riga" (Poor Latin, it has its last refuge in Riga). (more) I believe in English that's called 'showing off'. # posted by Jamie : 8:23 AM |
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