“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 ...

Latin is a classical language and also the Indo-European Language. Earlier, it was spoken in the Tiber areas of Rome, but once the Roman Republic came into power, the language started to dominate: ...