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Famous for his homework sheets created on a manual typewriter, Father Reginald Foster is seen working in his Vatican office in this January 2007 file photo. The famed teacher of Latin died Dec. 25, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wis. (CNS photo/Chris Warde-Jones)
From 1982 to 1987, I studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, doing first a licentiate degree and then a doctorate. My first semester was daunting. I had six courses, all taught in Italian, all lengthy lectures, each with anywhere from 50 to 200 students in the class, with nary a hand raised or a question asked. Only once in a rare moment did any professor ever invoke a concrete example of whatever he (yes, all were “he”) was teaching.
Death of legendary Latinist leaves the Church a grayer place
Father Reggie Foster was living proof that being indispensable is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card.
ROME – When I first arrived in Rome to cover the Vatican in the 1990s, every time I’d meet an English-speaker around town, sooner or later they’d all ask the same question, inevitably with an amused twinkle in their eye: “Have you met Reggie Foster yet?”
They’d tell me he was the pope’s Latinist, which didn’t exactly seem to make meeting him the most riveting prospect. At first I thought maybe it was some kind of nerdy ex-pat form of hazing, to gaslight the new guy into meeting the biggest bore around just for kicks.