The Roman Rite Church showed extraordinary missionary dynamism. This explains why a greater part of the world has been evangelized by heralds of the Latin Rite Many European languages which we regard ...
The first irony about the Latin language is that it is often called a dead language, when in fact it is alive and well in other languages — including English. The second irony is that Latin is ...
(Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday it wants its official language Latin to be used more often in the Roman Catholic mass. Here are some details on how Latin has been used in the Catholic Church: ...
I spent a bit of Sunday night helping my 14-year-old son study for an upcoming quiz in his Latin class. He’s a freshman at a large and well-regarded school for boys. As a native Angeleno, he grew up ...
Latin is the official language of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, but the working language of the Vatican is Italian. Given its location in Rome, the Vatican’s use of Italian makes perfect ...
As a linguist and historian, I heartily agree with Grace Spiewak (“Latin is not just for encyclicals. For all Catholics, it is our living history”) on the value of studying Latin or any classical ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is starting its first regular news bulletin in the language of Caesar and Cicero. Called ...