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 ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is trying to resurrect Latin. Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree Saturday creating a new pontifical academy for Latin studies to try to boost interest in the official ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday started a new Vatican department to promote the study and use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church and beyond. The old-style Latin Mass was phased ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is trying to resurrect Latin. Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree Saturday creating a new pontifical academy for Latin studies to try to boost interest in the official ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday started a new Vatican department to promote the study and use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church and beyond. The old-style Latin Mass was phased ...

The Vatican issued a decree on Friday guiding bishops’ conferences on the proper protocol for the translation of liturgical texts from Latin into vernacular languages. Published on Oct. 22, the feast ...

A Vatican document released Saturday imposed further restrictions on the pre-Vatican II liturgy, including a prohibition on listing Latin Masses in parish bulletins, Reuters reports. This document ...

Reginald Foster, a former plumber’s apprentice from Wisconsin who in four decades as an official Latinist of the Vatican dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately tweeted in ...

The Vatican Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is reportedly looking into enforcing restrictions on the Latin Mass at the annual Chartres pilgrimage, according to a ...

FILE - Nuns stand next to copies of L'Osservatore Romano newspaper with headlines in Latin of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Friday, May 9, 2025, a day after he was elected as the first North American ...

The Pontifical Academy for Latin will promote the knowledge and study of the language from classical times to the present day, said the Vatican. The Pope said the Church was the "guardian and promoter ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Catholic Church's department for worship laid out the rationale for a July decree reversing Pope Benedict XVI's rules for the pre-Vatican II rite. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A new ...