VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is starting its first regular news bulletin in the language of Caesar and Cicero.
Called "Hebdomada Papae, Notitiae Vaticanae latine reddiate" ('The pope's week, Vatican news in the Latin language'), it is the latest in a series of initiatives to broaden use of Latin, once a staple of Western European education and the language of all Roman Catholic services.
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