id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9043 Ecclesiastical Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 4064 475 60 The Ecclesiastical Latin that is used in theological works, liturgical rites and dogmatic proclamations varies in style: syntactically simple in the Vulgate Bible, hieratic (very restrained) in the Roman Canon of the Mass, terse and technical in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica, and Ciceronian (syntactically complex) in Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter Fides et Ratio. Ecclesiastical Latin continues to be the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. The rule now in force on the use of Latin in the Eucharistic liturgy of the Roman Rite states Mass is celebrated either in Latin or in another language, provided that the liturgical texts used have been approved according to the norm of law. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9043.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9043.txt