“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 ...

It's been nearly 40 years since the words of the Latin Mass - The Lord be with you; And with thy spirit; Let us pray - echoed through the sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Rosie Gross ...

LATIN has been the official language of the Catholic Church. Papal documents are promulgated in Latin. Church documents, most especially laws, are binding in Latin. The Vatican’s official gazette is ...

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 ...