“We exhort you all to lift up high the torch of Latin which is even today a bond of unity among peoples of all nations.” —Pope St. John Paul II Ancient Christian funerary plaque in Santa Maria degli ...

A Latin teacher at the seminary I attended described Italian and the other modern Romance languages as "corrupt provincial dialects of Latin". Pope Francis has decided that the working language of the ...

VATICAN CITY — “Is there no Latin word for tea?” Hilaire Belloc once remarked. “Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.” Were the English Catholic writer alive today ...