SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Latin
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Greek
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Spanish
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English
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ecclesiastical Latin continues to be the official language of the Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) decreed that the Mass would be translated into vernacular languages.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Church used Latin for centuries because it was born in the Roman Empire and when that empire fell, it kept it as a way to unify Catholics around the entire world. Even many Church documents are still translated into Latin, and recently the Vatican launched a Latin radio station!
Detailed explanation-3: -While the “Roman Church” has been used to describe the pope’s Diocese of Rome since the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages (6th–10th century), the “Roman Catholic Church” has been applied to the whole church in the English language since the Protestant Reformation in the late 16th century.