Aperire terris cœlum, apertum claudere
Viganó: Hatred directed against Rome, the capital of Christianity as the seat of the Papacy, is the hallmark of heretics; a hatred that manifests itself in the systematic cancellation of everything that is Roman, starting with the sacred language, which is Latin. The Benedictine abbot Dom Prosper Guéranger writes:Hatred of the Latin language is innate in the hearts of all the enemies of Rome: they see in it the bond of Catholics in the universe, the arsenal of orthodoxy against all the subtleties of the sectarian spirit, the most powerful weapon of the Papacy. The spirit of revolt, which induces them to entrust universal prayer to the idiom of each people, of each province, of each century, has moreover produced its fruits. [3]
Dom Guéranger continues:
[Martin Luther] had to abolish en masse the cult and ceremonies, such as (here Guéranger quotes Luther) “idolatry of Rome; the Latin language, the divine office, the calendar, the breviary, all abominations of the great whore of Babylon. The Roman Pontiff weighs on reason with his dogmas, weighs on the senses with his ritual practices: it must therefore be proclaimed that his dogmas are nothing but blasphemy and error, and his liturgical observances only a means to establish more strongly a usurped and tyrannical dominion. [4]