Pope Benedict XVI has approved the launch of a new Latin language college in the Vatican.
As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.
BC, and became Gallo-Romans as they adopted Roman ways and Latin as their language.
While Catholic services today are celebrated in local languages, Latin remains the official language of the Roman Catholic church.
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Typically, Pope Benedict even chose to announce his surprise resignation in a series of sentences in Latin - a dead language.
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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.
Issuing his decree, he said that since the early days of Christianity, the Church had made Latin "her own language", and that it was still held in high regard.
Central to the cultural space of Palenque de San Basilio is the palenquero language, the only creole language in Latin America with a lexical Spanish basis and grammatical characteristics of Bantu languages.
Martin and others are, in part, following in the footsteps of Estefan, who helped introduce Latin music to English-language audiences.
The canton is the only part of Switzerland that speaks Swiss German, Italian and Romansch, a language close to Latin that originated in ancient Rome.
In northern and eastern Europe Latin carried on as a language for scholarship and to some extent government even into the 19th Century.
He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.
Brithenig is an answer to the question of what English might have sounded like as a Romance language, if vulgar Latin had taken root on the British Isles.
But Pope Benedict has taken steps to make it easier for priests to say Mass in Latin, rather than their local language, if their more traditionalist congregations demand it.
An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
French was once the nearest thing (since Latin) that Europe had to an international language.
Unlike Latin and French, German was never the language of diplomacy and culture.
The Pontifical Academy for Latin will promote the knowledge and study of the language from classical times to the present day, said the Vatican.
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French.
Vatican II made fundamental changes in the environment of the Mass in having services conducted in the language of each congregation (instead of in Latin for all), and having the Mass celebrants turn around and face the congregation.
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Latin America is a huge opportunity for us -- time zone, language opportunities.
Hence Diageo, for the merged Guinness-Grand Met, which combines the Latin for day with the Greek for world and means nothing in any language.
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But in Rome the challenge is not to chop and squeeze the language into new shapes, but to translate modern words into the full, but precise, complexity that Latin requires.
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