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Father Reginald Foster, exuberant figure in Vatican life who was Latinist to four popes – obituary He translated papal writings from Italian into Latin and devised new Latin words for modern phenomena from Twitter to hot dogs 30 December 2020 • 2:09pm Reginald Foster: he did not charge students for lessons and they soon warmed to his eccentric but rigorous teaching style Credit: Chris Warde-Jones Father Reginald Foster, who died on Christmas Day aged 81, was the Roman Catholic Church’s greatest post-war Latin specialist; for 40 years he translated Vatican documents into the ancient tongue and he served as Latin secretary to four popes. Following the Second Vatican Council, Foster (a Carmelite priest) mounted a brave and eloquent, if ultimately futile, protest against the marginalisation of Latin. He condemned the growing ignorance of the language in the upper echelons of the Church, and argued with considerable ingenuity that there was a place for La ....
Reggie Foster, Latinist to 4 popes, dies at 81 The petrol guy defied convention, became cult teacher 28 Dicembre 2020 NEW YORK, DEC 28 - Father Reginald Foster, Latinist to four popes and one of the world s top Latin teachers, died of COVID on Christmas Day in his care home in Milwaukee. He was 81. Foster, who wrote, spoke, swore and tweeted in Latin, was nicknamed by the Swiss Guards the petrol station guy because of the worker s clothes he wore in defiance of apostolic pomp. For over 40 years he worked in the Vatican translating encyclicals, bulls and apostolic letters in the language he fell in love with as a teenager. ....