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Conversation with a Religious Socialist

Early on, this commenter was supporting Pope Francis’ attacks on free enterprise and pushing of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming line. He claimed to have read Laudato Sí in the original Latin, and stuck to that when I pointed out that Catholic sites are reporting that there did not seem to be a

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Laudato Si in Latin

[marmoe]

FYI only.

Yay, sidetrack. ;-)

mastersamwise: You need to meet someone who knows someone who talks to the Pope’s Latinist.

Ummmm, no.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/la/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

So it's on the website of the The Holy See (archive.org pulled its first copy on Oct 17, 2015), however it is not linked from the other language version pages, as it usually would be. As your link provided, Italian seems to be the original language.

[sir_dave]

I find it interesting that Stalin was trained as a priest before he became a genocidal tyrant

[level_head]

I find it interesting that Stalin was trained as a priest before he became a genocidal tyrant.
This pattern holds for others as well. Part of this is simply because seminary education seems to have been fairly common, increasing the odds. And part of it was that such educational decisions were not usually made by the individual.

I don't blame seminaries for the dictators who happened to have attended.

But I have long been struck by the Biblical accounts making it clear that those who worked and lived every day with Jesus, an aspect of God on Earth, could still be not completely convinced. I think that there have been more devout Christians in later centuries than among the apostles.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[sir_dave]

"I have long been struck by the Biblical accounts making it clear that those who worked and lived every day with Jesus, an aspect of God on Earth, could still be not completely convinced

[sir_dave]

Regarding the problems of belief, there are two aspects I want to explain

[rowyn]

mastersamwise doesn't seem a terribly coherent individual. O_o