Latin Dying Out… Again
by Corentin Wauters (staff) | Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Circero and Caesar’s language has been scrapped from many school curricula in recent decades. Now, it is also disappearing in the Roman Catholic Church, the institution which had kept it alive for many centuries. Does this signal the ancient language’s second death since the fall of the Roman Empire? First published in April 2007.
Swine Flu drives invention of holy water dispenser
by Antonino John Scoppettuolo (staff) | Friday, December 11th, 2009
With H1N1 contagion numbers on the rise in Italy, the Vatican took the unprecedented step of recommending expunging churches’ holy water faucets as a means of avoiding promiscuous contact and the spreading of the virus.
Vatican nabs discontented Anglicans with marriage let-off
by Antonino John Scoppettuolo (staff) | Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Announcement of a Papal decree allowing married Anglicans – both clergy and worshippers – to ‘enter’ into the Catholic community reportedly dumbfounded the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Vatican stalls over Anglo-Catholic union
by Caroline Prosser (staff) | Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Over a week after Pope Benedict announced a landmark decree inviting disaffected Anglicans to convert en masse to Catholicism, the text of the Apostolic Constitution, which lays down its conditions, is yet to be released.
Until 10 Jan: Power and Grace. Europe’s Patron Saints
Friday, October 30th, 2009
[ 30 October 2009 to 10 January 2010. ] ‘Il Potere e la Grazia. I Santi Patroni d’Europa’ features 120 paintings by the likes of Durer, Van Eyck, Mantegna, Anton van Dyck, Ingres, El Greco, Guercino, Caravaggio, Tiepolo.
