VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Latin language in the Catholic Church faces two major hurdles: the increasingly exclusive access to Latin instruction worldwide and the difficulty of transmitting the ancient language s modern value to seminarians from non-European backgrounds, said the new president of the Vatican s Latin academy.
Though it is fighting an uphill battle, the Pontifical Academy for Latin, the Pontificia Academia Latinitatis in Latin, is the Vatican body charged with promoting the know