11/11/2012
Latina Lingua, De Pontificia Academia Latinitatis condenda - Benedictus XVI, Motu proprio
1. Latina Linguapermagni ab Ecclesia Catholica Romanisque Pontificibus usque est aestimata, quandoquidem ipsorum propria habita est lingua, qui eandem cognoscendam et diffundendam assidue curaverunt, cm Evangelii nuntium in universum orbem transmittere valeret, quemadmodum in Constitutione Apost...
12/09/2012
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/latino-latin-latin-papa-pope-el-papa-17766
Pope takes steps to promote Latin - Vatican Insider
“Foveatur lingua latina”. Pope Benedict XVI is keen to foster people’s knowledge of the language of Cicero, Augustine and Erasmus of Rotterdam not just in the Catholic Church but also in civil society and in schools. Indeed he is about to publish a motu proprio to establish the new “Pontificia Acade...
12/09/2012
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100066255/mirabile-dictu-the-pope-saves-latin/
Mirabile dictu! The Pope saves Latin – Telegraph Blogs
Thank God for the Catholic church - and I speak as an agnostic Anglican. Once again, they are helping to preserve the study of Latin in Western Europe,