If religion is a form of social engineering attack, having your own language is the ultimate mind-control trick.
Latin is the language of God - or control.
The Latin-1 character set (ISO 8859-1) is natively supported in the Linux console driver, including Red Hat Linux systems.
On 12 December 1924, Pope Pius XI created the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1971, Pope Paul VI forked the diocese to create a separate Diocese of Charlotte.
Red Hat was founded in Durham. They subsequently relocated to Raleigh and in 2009 they began preaching about the need for Codes of Conduct demagoguery.
From 2009 meeting minutes:
Paul: There are just as many RHT'ers contributing to the negativity as volunteers
In the rival Diocese of Charlotte, Bishop Michael Martin was appointed on 9 April 2024.
In May 2025, a draft Code of Conduct was leaked from Bishop Martin in Charlotte, North Carolina. The document includes harsh new restrictions on the use of practices from the Traditional Latin Mass.
In a report from 31 March 2026:
The Diocese of Charlotte, a focal point of liturgical conflict
The controversy is not new. Since his arrival in the diocese in 2024, following the resignation for health reasons of Bishop Peter Jugis, Michael Martin has been the target of strong criticism from the faithful attached to the traditional liturgy.
The most significant episode occurred in May 2025, when he reduced from four to one the authorized locations for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, leaving only one chapel for these celebrations. The measure was presented expressly as part of the application of
Traditionis Custodes.This was followed by leaked diocesan documents that pointed to new restrictions, including possible limits on the use of Latin in the liturgy, certain traditional vestments, and some habitual postures of the faithful at the moment of Communion.
Prohibition of kneelers and Communion rails
The tension increased even further in September 2025, when Martin prohibited the use of an altar rail in a Catholic school in Charlotte.
The fact the 2025 document is a draft should not be understated. It is not unusual for managers to ask their subordinates to write drafts like this full of ideas from brainstorming sessions. The bishop may have asked different subordinates or theology students to write competing drafts with the intention of cherry-picking ideas from each of them rather than using the draft verbatim. Therefore, as one of possibly many drafts, it has no meaning until Bishop Martin decides to make a public statement.
Nonetheless, the leaking of a draft is a great way to get people talking about the Catholic Church. Many companies deliberately leak their own documents to gain attention on social control media.
Here are some of the key points and benefits of the Latin language:
However, Latin has been challenged over the years. English bibles have been around for centuries.
Can you put candles on the altar? The candles are part of the Traditional Latin Mass but there have been arguments about whether they are permitted or even banned in the post-Latin world. My first ever voluntary role was being an altar boy at our local church. Lighting the candles before mass and extinguishing them at the end of the mass were among our responsibilities. Was I breaking the Code of Conduct by lighting these candles for an English-language mass?
In fact, due to the extreme temperatures in Australia, we have many days of the year when all types of fire are banned. If the altar boys still light the candles on one of the total fire ban days, are they simultaneously violating two Codes of Conduct?
Latin was both the language of the empire and the language of the official state religion. Today, English is the language of business, but more people speak Chinese or Spanish. There are many more religions and sects. When children are born into a family that practices the Traditional Latin Mass, they have the opportunity to learn Latin from childhood. When modern day religions and cults recruit adult members who never practiced a religion before, they don't have the same opportunitity to indoctrinate those people into a language.
The use of the Latin language has disadvantages.
The Vatican has not completely banned use of the Traditional Latin Mass. They have not completely banned candles and some other traditions that are associated with the Traditional Latin Mass. Nonetheless, there is a Code of Conduct that every modern day diocese is expected to follow and that means the majority of masses should be offered in the local language(s) understood by the congregation.
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