Pope Benedict XVI
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I’m still trying to track down the official Papal Bull which established the Latin Academy which the pope recently decreed, but until then, this Rome Reports video is actually really good: … I wonder what would happen if they asked the same question on the streets of some North American city (both knowledge-wise and ‘accent-wise’)
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This is getting a bit of coverage … the Guardian seems to have the version that’s most appropriate for us (but see also Harry Mount in the Telegraph … link below): Alarmed by a decline in the use of Latin within the Catholic church, Pope Benedict is planning to set up a Vatican academy to…
rogue classicism 