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GiqueCee

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16. I thought...

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 12:09 PM

16 hrs ago

... Latin was the official language of the Vatican, but maybe not. I was never a Catholic, though I'm married to a recovering Catholic, but was never an Italian, either.

On edit: After a more careful reading, I suspect you may be right. But among the Romance languages, Italian is said to be the closest to its Latin roots.

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Vatican cracks down on a traditionalist group by excommunicating its bishops [View all] dalton99a 19 hrs ago OP

Take Down Opus Dei next! Chasstev365 19 hrs ago #1

+1 dalton99a 19 hrs ago #2

They're dangerous to the general population. rubbersole 18 hrs ago #8

Beat me to it. He does that, and ill be back in there the following sunday with a hundred bucks in my hand. Volaris 17 hrs ago #11

Shady Vance would have to find another religion again. wnylib 8 hrs ago #44

Excommunicate Opus Dei SCOTUS and JD Vance next... hlthe2b 19 hrs ago #3

This! 👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #6

ABSOLUTELY! Jilly_in_VA 15 hrs ago #26

This MustLoveBeagles 9 hrs ago #41

Awww, thank you MustLoveBeagles! hlthe2b 8 hrs ago #43

Dang. This Pope might get me back into a church Prairie Gates 19 hrs ago #4

A teaching moment for the US left. If you have the power and you're negotiating with assholes, you're losing. harumph 19 hrs ago #5

Religious fundamentalists of all faiths are made of the same cloth. sop 19 hrs ago #7

this. fanatics (of all breed and stripe) are dangerous stopdiggin 17 hrs ago #10

I have long believed... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #14

Vance and the KKKatholic Kourt. usonian 18 hrs ago #9

Damn! GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #12

I think it's in Italian, not Latin. nt Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #15

I thought... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #16

Italian is the working and administrative language of the Vatican. dalton99a 16 hrs ago #17

AHA! GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #19

why a dead language is good for enduring concepts rampartd 10 hrs ago #36

Good point! GiqueCee 10 hrs ago #37

it is why so much law and medicine still use a dead language. rampartd 10 hrs ago #38

Dead languages evolve too. hunter 9 hrs ago #39

mea culpa rampartd 9 hrs ago #42

I know Latin from biology not the law. hunter 7 hrs ago #46

Go Leo! Crack that whip! liberalla 16 hrs ago #13

A good reminder that authoritarians use authority to preserve the system that preserves them 31j20b3 16 hrs ago #18

Non-authoritarians occasionally have to resort to hard leveraging of rules and options harumph 15 hrs ago #20

Yes, especially in a case like this wherein a handful out of thousands of priests 31j20b3 15 hrs ago #21

Oh, I see where you're coming from. harumph 15 hrs ago #22

I suppose it's also a question of shoe-size 31j20b3 15 hrs ago #23

Agreed. That's often the case. harumph 15 hrs ago #24

Yep, and our troubling problem is the few caught on a very long time ago 31j20b3 15 hrs ago #25

sspx : this schism goes back to like 1970 rampartd 8 hrs ago #45

Would a Catholic church named St Pius X be part of that group or not doyou think? mahina 3 hrs ago #48

i've never knowingly met any of these guys, or any opus dei for that matter rampartd 1 hr ago #49

You don't understand that this fascist group is the one blm 14 hrs ago #30

Could use a proper name for "this fascist group" just so I can be sure 31j20b3 14 hrs ago #31

TFP. Tradition-Family-Property. They are like the commoner base for Opus Dei elites. blm 14 hrs ago #33

Thanks. I didn't know about TFP, but I'm aware of pfople pushing that 31j20b3 14 hrs ago #34

Exciting times bucolic_frolic 15 hrs ago #27

Good. blm 14 hrs ago #28

Not just the bishops - anyone who "habitually participates" in the society and "formally shares its positions" muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #29

This isn't even the first time SSPX has pulled these shenanigans... sir pball 14 hrs ago #32

Exactly. I was horrified when Benedict removed restrictions on them. blm 13 hrs ago #35

Good. hunter 9 hrs ago #40

I was hoping Vance had been Baptized into Catholicism by SSPX. pat_k 7 hrs ago #47