[BlackElk]

Although Jefferson Davis is not known to be a Catholic but rather an Episcopalian IIRC, he was sent by his parents from Mississippi to Kentucky for a Dominican grade school Catholic education. Also, there was a wonderful mutual respect between Pope (soon to be saint) Pius IX (commonly known by the greatest papal name of them all: Pio NoNo) and Jeferson Davis. Pio NoNo fashioned a crown of thorns with his on hands and sent it to the imprisoned President of the Confederacy as a show of support. The Vatican was, I believe, the only European nation to maintain diplomatic relations with the Confederacy. Pio NoNo was by the time of the late unpleasantness of the Northern invasion of the Confederacy a very conservatve fellow and pope. To write to him, Jefferson Davis would have had to abandon one of the two essentials of Southern dialect: y'all (the other being bidness for business) or to have learned to expres y'all in Latin.

Jeff Davis's letters to Pi NoNo would be the Ur text or even Rosetta Stone for the discovery of the future language of the Southland. As you know, at least some Southron Episcopalians are coming our way already. It is a very protective language as well since liberals are just constitutionally (they should pardon the expression) incapable of handling Latin.

[Convert from ECUSA]

:))) Pope Benedict is from Bavaria, which is Southern Germany........as for the ECUSA, neither Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee would recognize it, they would see it for the New Agey pagan-dominated looney bin it is. Same for C.S. Lewis, who warned about what we've seen in the ECUSA for the past 40 years in his writings; Lewis saw the first rumblings on the horizon. As you know, FR friend AnAmericanMother is one of those wonderful Southern Episcopalians (they way they used to make them before the ECUSA went all New Agey pagan) who crossed the Tiber.