THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD VATICAN

[quote]The word “Vatican” literally means “Divining Serpent,” and is derived from Vatis = Diviner and Can = Serpent. Vatican City and St. Peter’s Basilica were built on the ancient pagan site called in Latin vaticanus mons or vaticanus colli, which means hill or mountain of prophecy. The Vatican Enforces the Will of the Gods; the Divining …
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LOFLCOPTR

No.

"Can-" isn't a Latin word, never mind one meaning "serpent" or "dragon". Latin has quite a few words for snakes, including [i]serpens, vipera, draco, anguis[/i], and [i]colubra[/i]. If anything animal-related "can-" or "-can" would indicate something to do with dogs ([i]canes[/i]). And it's much more likely to be related to [i]canere/cantere[/i], meaning "to sing".

Associating "vates" (noun) and "vaticinor" (verb) meaning prophet/to prophesy has a degree of legitimacy.

"Vatican" could mean "the place from which prophecies are sung/proclaimed", (which was the Romans' own etymology for it), but people who actually know what they're talking about which apparently doesn't include you would tend to suggest it's derived from a now-lost Etruscan word. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that what we now call the Vatican Hill or [i]mons vaticanus[/i] had anything whatsoever to do with prophesying in pagan times.

What we do know, of course, is that it was a place of entertainment, because St Peter's basilica is built over the site over the Circus of Nero (or Caligula), where, at least according to legend, St Peter was martyred.

Besides which, the St Paul VI Audience Hall doesn't look like a serpent, inside or out, but like what it is: a thoroughly and reprehensibly ugly mid-century monstrosity that can't fall down soon enough.

RETVRN TO ROMANESQUE!

Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic. In my opinion no one familiar with his Journals and letters can doubt his fidelity to Christ.

The Catholic Church is made up of individual human beings. Making blanket judgements of that Church (based more often than not simply on the thought that it differs in teaching to one's own particular chosen brand of the Christian Faith) is surely wrong.

It really does come across as misguided to declare any Church as "apostate" based purely upon one's own allegiances.

That is interesting information for sure....

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