Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is ...
VATICAN CITY - Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is starting its first regular news bulletin in the language of Caesar and Cicero.Called “Hebdomada Papae, Notitiae Vaticanae latine reddiate” , it is the latest in a series of initiatives to broaden use of Latin, once a staple of Western European education and the language of all Roman Catholic services.
“We wanted the official language of the Church to be experienced in news just as it is in the daily broadcast of a Mass in Latin,” said Andrea Tornielli, the editorial director for Vatican communications. “We now have Wikipedia in Latin , about 40 Latin Facebook groups around the world - and the pope’s Twitter account in Latin is followed by nearly a million people,” he told Reuters. “Not bad for a dead language.”
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