In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world's best Latin lessons are given for free. That's where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He's managed to ...

Connor Jarollimek and Keyton Loner (left to right) are poised and ready to choose the correct Latin-derived word during a game. Seventh graders at The Colorado Springs School were learning about words ...

Duolingo, the popular free language learning website and app, has launched a Latin course to help its users say "salve" to Latin fluency. "Latin has long been regarded as a 'dead, read' language that ...

Readers respond to a letter which declared Latin a dead language with little relevance to modern education A correspondent asks whether there is any demand for Latin among secondary students (Letters, ...

“We exhort you all to lift up high the torch of Latin which is even today a bond of unity among peoples of all nations.” —Pope St. John Paul II Ancient Christian funerary plaque in Santa Maria degli ...

For centuries, the Catholic Mass was celebrated in Latin. But inthe 1960s, the reform-minded Second Vatican Council ordered thatthe rite be revised and celebrated in the local language. The Mass in ...

The first irony about the Latin language is that it is often called a dead language, when in fact it is alive and well in other languages — including English. The second irony is that Latin is ...

After more than 30 frenetic years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty, who shepherded several novels, including “Flowers in the Attic” and “Life of Pi,” onto bestseller lists, learned the wisdom ...