In another thread Joseph Gannon supplied us with the Google translation of the first paragraph of Pope Benedict's recent encyclical. Below are the computer-generated translations of the Nicene Creed as found in the Declaration "Dominus Iesus." The first is from the German text, and it is actually an improvement. An earlier version began: "Before Mister Jesus drove into the sky..."

These are the essential content of the Christian creed: "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, everything created has heaven and earth, the visible and the invisible world. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, God's native son from the father was born before all time:... For us people and for our salvation, he is from Heaven came, the meat was adopted by the Holy Spirit by the Virgin Mary and is man become. He was for us was crucified under Pontius Pilate, has suffered and is buried in is on the third day rose again according to the Scripture, and ascended into the sky. He sits on the rights of the father and will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, his reign will not end his. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord is alive makes, from the father showing, with the father and the son adored and glorified, which is spoken, through the prophets, and the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.... "

The Italian version--the computer seems to have given up on the final verbs:

These are the contents key of the profession of faith, Christian: "I believe in one God, Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Only-begotten Son of God, born from the Father before all ages: God from God, Light from Light, God's truth from God's truth, begotten, not created, consubstantial with the Father, for half of which were created all things. For us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and operates the Spirit Santo was embodied in the womb of the Virgin Mary and was made man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, was buried and the third days again second to the Scriptures, ascended to heaven, sits to the right of the Father, will again with glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Spirit Santo, who is Lord and gives the life, and proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, and talked for half of the prophets. I believe the Church, one holy catholic and apostolic. Professo one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins. Aspetto the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to be."

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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