First, the announcement that Latin will not be used. Excerpts from Reuters:
In a break with the past, Pope Francis has decided that Latin will not be the official language of a worldwide gathering of bishops at the Vatican.
A cardinal made the announcement at the start of the first working day of the two-week assembly, known as a synod, where about 200 Roman Catholic bishops from around the world are discussing themes related to the family..
Italian, the lingua franca of the Vatican, would become the synod’s official language, he said.
This is just the beginning. What was the prophecy? The False Prophet must support his master.
He, the Antichrist [Maitreya], will speak many languages, but not one word of Latin will come from his lips.
What does the Vatican II St. Pope John XXII say about using Latin as the official language of the Church?
The Church’s language must be not only universal but also immutable. Modern languages are liable to change, and no single one of them is superior to the others in authority. Thus if the truths of the Catholic Church were entrusted to an unspecified number of them, the meaning of these truths, varied as they are, would not be manifested to everyone with sufficient clarity and precision. There would, moreover, be no language which could serve as a common and constant norm by which to gauge the exact meaning of other renderings.But Latin is indeed such a language. It is set and unchanging. it has long since ceased to be affected by those alterations in the meaning of words which are the normal result of daily, popular use. Certain Latin words, it is true, acquired new meanings as Christian teaching developed and needed to be explained and defended, but these new meanings have long since become accepted and firmly established.Pope St. John XXIII –Veterum Sapientia -February 22, 1962
Read Rorate Caeli’s view on this here.
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