The New Pontifical Academy for Latin comes at a good time...

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Pope Benedict has just announced the creation of a new Pontifical Academy for Latin, which will be linked to the work of the Pontifical Council for Culture. It’s a good moment to do so. The study of Latin has been in the doldrums ever since Catholics parted with “the speech of Christian centuries” and became “like profane intruders in the literary precincts of sacred utterance”