The title says it all. It’s an encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.
It’s at the Vatican’s website in English.
It’s everywhere in English. For full credit you have to find it in Latin.
Hmm… Using the English version as a guide, I picked some words which ought to be in the original Latin, and searched for those together with “Providentissimus Deus” on Google. I don’t remember much Latin, but I was able to find enough to level it down to “results 1-5 of 5”, none of which is it. So it would appear that either I mangled some of the words I used in a creative way, or it’s not anywhere indexed by Google.
Have you tried the Google Book Search? It’s an archive of full text documents.
Yes. I didn’t exhaust the entire list, but I get hundreds of references to it, but not the actual latin text.
Boy, it’s slow in the office today. Anyway, I spent a fair amount of time searching and came up empty. Seems to me that if the Vatican doesn’t have it, no one will have it. I think you’re into interlibrary loan territory at this point.
Thanks all who responded. I went to Catholic University, Mullen Library and found Latin excerpts from it in a book, Enchiridion Symbolorum, but not the whole thing.
I found an excerpt from the letter in Latin at this site; scroll down to Exemplum VII. The text here corresponds to the start of section 20 (starting at “The unshrinking defense of the Holy Scripture…” to about mid-way into section 21 (up to “…impossible that God Himself, the supreme Truth, can utter that which is not true.”).
This section includes the context for this encyclical’s most famous phrase Spiritu Sancto dictante, which may be why you are interested in reading the Latin text.
I found nothing else on the rest of the net; even Questia comes up empty.