Fr. Reginald (Reggie) Foster Archives

On Reginald Foster’s Latin

Tireless evangelist for Latin, pioneering teacher with an eccentric approach – but it reflected a deep understanding of how languages work.

It may still be the Church’s official language but it appears that there are some in the Vatican who don’t know Latin as well as they should.

Fr. Foster has been one of the Pope’s Latinists since the 1960s. No one knows Latin like he does. He was asked whether Latin is a sacred language.