“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 ...

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 ...

The Missale Romanum, as it’s formally known, was buried under ecclesiastical paperwork for much of the past four decades. The Second Vatican Council’s call for delivering church ceremonies in the ...

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 ...