Motto
With special thanks to Rev. Dr. Gerard J. Hughes, SJ, for his contribution to the scholarly translation of the Acta Pekinensia.
“What a text means is defined in terms of what a person with the relevant linguistic competence would understand by it in its original context.”
from “The Pitfalls of Translation,” in his Fidelity without Fundamentalism: A Dialogue with Tradition, p. 22