Translating the Encyclical

DEUS CARITAS EST, et, qui manet in caritate, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo manet. (1 John 4:16)

In the latest broadcast of The Latin Lover, the pope's latinist, Fr. Reginald Foster, groans about his experience translating the pope's encyclical into Latin. It was not an easy task, according to Fr. Foster, to try to fit all the terrible jargon used in modern languages into Latin, the lingua ecclesiae. "The Romans just didn't think that way!"