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ZetaRickytoday at 10:57 AM3 repliesview on HN

Interestingly, the Latin version of the encyclica is yet to be released at the moment


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qsorttoday at 11:30 AM

Modern encyclicals aren't written in Latin anymore. They're drafted in Italian and the title is the Latin translation of the incipit.

Indeed, the beginning of the Italian text is: "La magnifica umanità creata da Dio si trova oggi..." from which, Magnifica Humanitas.

wltoday at 1:36 PM

For those who don't know why that's interesting: The tradional practice for creating these kinds of texts is to first write an editio typica in Latin. This Latin text is then the basis for translations into vernacular languages.

stavrostoday at 11:21 AM

Yeah, I don't know how they expect the people of Latin America to read this.

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