Roman Catholic Mass was at one time universally celebrated in Latin, the ancient Roman language. After the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Mass was allowed to be celebrated in the language of the ...

VATICAN CITY — For more than 1,500 years, Latin was the language of the educated Western world. It was the repository of scholarship, the official language of the Roman Catholic Church and the tongue ...

January arrived again a few days ago, just when we expected it. The name January comes from Janus, the Roman god of doors and beginnings. I didn't know that doors had their own god. I am wondering ...

Most rites have an original language which also gives each rite its historical identity. The Roman Rite has Latin as its official language. The typical editions of its liturgical books are to this day ...

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The Romans introduced writing, and Latin borrowings began to show up in the Brittonic language. The effective conquest by Rome started in 43 AD. By around 70 AD all of Britain save northern Scotland ...

ZURICH—As kids return to school in Val Müstair, high in the eastern tip of the Swiss Alps, they are also entering the front lines of a bitter battle: the fight over the future of a centuries-old Latin ...

Forget Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. The “Latin invasion” that has captivated hundreds of Lake Forest elementary school pupils is anchored in the ancient poetry and prose of ...