![]() Satan hates Latin because Latin promotes unity, especially the unity of the Church, Christ’s mystical Body. Because of the discipline of mind and temperament that the study of Latin imparts? Perhaps, but some sports can do that, too. On that score, English, with its huge vocabulary and supple grammar, has to be among the most resourceful of all, as the Catholic poet and playwright William Shakespeare would attest. But modern languages, too, are replete with resources for expressing the breadth of what is in the heart and the mind. It is certainly beautiful in its unique way, and there are prayers, hymns and sequences that are only as effective as they are because of the succinct Latin drumbeat in which they are composed (e.g., Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Dies iræ, Victimæ paschali laudes, Corde natus ex parentis), to say nothing of the mind-opening secular works of Cicero, Ovid et al. ![]() With gratitude to an anonymous Poor Clare nun.īecause Latin is inherently divine? No, it’s a human tongue. Because it is intrinsically superior as a language? Maybe not.
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