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Benedict XVI

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Benedict XVI’s Latin 'Mistakes' – and the Meaning of his "Great Decisio"

A Linguistic Analysis of the Words Actually Spoken by Benedict on February 11, 2013

For better or for worse, it remains the definitive moment for the Catholic Church of our time – the morning of February 11, 2013, when in the presence of the Cardinals gathered for the Consistory Benedict XVI unexpectedly began reading aloud in Latin a document simply called Declaratio. The consequences of that utterance have been and still are enormous.

Source : Nicholas Owen's substack