Vatican unveils new magazine in Latin

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Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican on Friday presented a revamped version of its Latin-language journal "Latinitas" as it tries bid to make the dead language still used in the Catholic Church accessible to a wider audience.

The first issue of the new twice-yearly magazine includes a preface written by Pope Francis, whose new Twitter account in Latin -- "Papa Franciscus" -- has reached more than 180,000 followers.

"The aim is to highlight the glorious tradition behind us that has to be preserved and re-launched," Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican's culture department, said at the event.

The pope's predecessor, Benedict XVI, last year set up a special pontifical council known as "Academia Latinitatis" to spread learning in Latin in one of his last acts as pope before resigning.

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Maiora premunt.

[otherone]

1. I think that is pretty cool

I don't understand latin, but i think it would be cool to have a subscription to this mag..

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2. It would definitely clean the rust off your Latin.

[hunter]

3. I'll wait for the modern Latin "Interlingua" version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

My wife is okay with English, Spanish, Latin, and various other random languages. Amazing to me.

My linguistic mind got frozen in some English-Germanic place. But most of the time I'm not lingual at all. I don't "think" in a language unless I'm writing, or to a lesser extent, talking. I don't talk much. I watch movies by myself with the captions on and the sound turned very low. I don't like noise.

When I'm hanging out with my dogs I'm just a dog with no tail and a very poor nose. Our dogs pity me. I'm still the alpha, I feed them, but soften in our adventures they look at me like:



When I'm writing computer code I live in it. It's a great way to shut out this very confusing world...

I read the entire Bible when I was seven years old. I think that messed me up.