Instead of transitioning between Latin and English, spoken Latin keeps the cognition all in one language. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Getty Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art under ...

The Latin language used to be spoken all over the Roman Empire. But no country officially speaks it now, at least not in its classic form. So, did Latin really peter out when the Roman Empire ceased ...

The death of Latin has been greatly exaggerated. Of course, Latin is no longer the default language for European learning and diplomacy, as it was from the Roman Empire through the early modern period ...

Seminarian Gerard Gayou’s “The Guiding Light of Latin Grammar” (Houses of Worship, June 23) calls to mind the line of Father John X. Halligan, played by Van Johnson in the 1952 movie “When in Rome”: ...

In this episode of Momentos Musicales, KPAC's James Baker listens to the sound of early religious music composed in the New World, and jumps ahead to the late 20th Century, when Vatican II ushered in ...

‘Latin does not allow you to drift on meaninglessly,” Reginald Foster told E. J. Dionne in 1986, explaining why it deserves to live. In Latin, “either you say something” in “concrete language” or “you ...

The most visible result of the Second Vatican Council so far has been the decision to translate the Roman Catholic Mass into vernacular languages. But now that scholars are engaged in translating the ...