Duolingo, the popular free language learning website and app, has launched a Latin course to help its users say "salve" to Latin fluency. "Latin has long been regarded as a 'dead, read' language that ...

“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 ...

Latin is the official language of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, but the working language of the Vatican is Italian. Given its location in Rome, the Vatican’s use of Italian makes perfect ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Avery Nelson. Like most people who study abroad in a non-English speaking country, I ...

It’s a practice for several parishes in my home diocese to chant the Kyrie, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation (“Mortem Tuam”), and Agnus Dei in Greek and Latin at Sunday Mass during the season of Lent.

No, this word doesn’t size up your Quidditch skills. It literally means “whatness,” formed from the Latin quid, or “what.” Quiddity was introduced as a philosophical term in the Middle Ages for “what ...

My father left school at 14, with a certificate: “DUX” it read. Just this month, age 91, he thought to ask me what it meant. “Leader!” I replied, “Ah” he said, “I’d always wondered...” It is the kind ...

EXCLUSIVE: Latin is now the fourth most popular language taught in UK primary schools, behind French, Spanish and German, however some argue that primary school students would be better off learning a ...

For a response to this piece, read “The Liturgy Was Made for All People and Languages, Not Just Latin.” The Catholic Church often faces the perception that it cannot adequately respond to the social ...

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