In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world's best Latin lessons are given for free. That's where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He's managed to ...

In November 2025, Pope Leo XIV signed new regulations for the Roman Curia stating that institutions “shall ordinarily draw up ...

Readers respond to a letter which declared Latin a dead language with little relevance to modern education A correspondent asks whether there is any demand for Latin among secondary students (Letters, ...

For centuries, the Catholic Mass was celebrated in Latin. But inthe 1960s, the reform-minded Second Vatican Council ordered thatthe rite be revised and celebrated in the local language. The Mass in ...

“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 ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...

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 ...

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 "Hebdomada Papae, Notitiae ...