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The official language of the Catholic church is Latin.
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Latin is the official language of the Church b/c it was NECESSARY for the Catholic Church -- over the past 2000 years -- to be ABLE to communicate, in the SAME LANGUAGE, with all bishops & priests worldwide. For most of Christian history, it wasn't really possible to translate church documents into a variety of different languages and those who performed the translations must know Latin -- be capable of fluently speaking and writing in Latin in order to transcribe/translate documents into the venacular of their nation.
Latin is also the ROOT (foundation) of all the "Romance Languages" -- english, spanish, french, italian, etc.
Latin was also the primary language of the Romans -- Roman Empire that encompassed most of the western and a chunk of the eastern world -- during early church history. This is most likely why Latin was originally chosen as the official "universal"language of the Catholic Church -- the only Christian church for over 1000 years.
Mass in Latin was also genuinely important b/c Catholics could attend Mass -- anywhere the world -- and KNOW what was said. That is something that today is LOST and that's a bad thing, not a good thing, at least on one level.
Personally, i believe that it would be a lot SMARTER if the SECULAR world also had ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE that everyone knew and could converse it. WHY learn spanish, english, french, german, farci, etc. in order to converse with people from other nations? Why not JUST have ONE universal language. Everyone would have their own national language. Then if you travel (or must live/work in a foreign country for a few years) you can converse with the French in the universal language instead of having to learn french, spanish, etc whenever you travel or live in a foreign country for a time.
That was the primary -- and wise -- reason for Latin as the universal (official) language of the Catholic Church. And, Latin was a good choice as the universal/official language b/c it IS the foundation of many other languages, english, french, etc.
For the Roman Catholic Church it has always been Latin, other Christian denominations don't tend to have a traditional/official language.
AnswerThe official language of the Catholic Church before the council of Vatican II was Latin and it still is today. The Church's documents and laws are still kept in Latin and it continues to be spoken as a "lingua franca" within the Vatican itself on a day to day basis. The major change in language that came from the council was the institution of the vernacular in the Mass. Until that time, Mass was celebrated in Latin regardless of where it was being celebrated. Since that time the local language of the people is used to foster a deeper understanding of and participation in the sacrament.
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∙ 14y agoThe Catholic Church uses all the languages of the world. For example, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles celebrates the Mass in the following languages of the people: * American Sign Language * Arabic * Aramaic * Armenian * Cambodian * Chinese (Cantonese) * Chinese (Mandarin) * Croatian * French * Garifuna (Ukrainian-Byzantine) * German * Haitian * Hungarian * Igbo * Indian * Indonesian * Italian * Japanese * Korean * Lithuanian * Polish * Portuguese * Samoan * Slavonic * Spanish * Tagalog (Philippene) * Tongan * Ukrainian * Vietnamese and * African-American Cultural Focus * Native American Cultural Focus and, of course, * English The official language of the Catholic Church is Latin.
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∙ 12y agoThe liturgies can be either in Latin or vernacular - the language of the local people.
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∙ 12y agoLatin is still the official language of the Church for documents in Rome. However, most parishes throughout the world now use the local language.
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∙ 13y agoOriginally the Catholic church performed all services in Latin. In some places it is still done today, so it would be the Latin alphabet.
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