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Latin resurrected on Vatican website
news.com.au May 9, 2008
THE Catholic church's official language of Latin has finally made it onto the Vatican website, alongside Italian, English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese. ... While it lost the title of a living language centuries ago, the new Latin section on...
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