# Posted 6:14 PM by Patrick Belton
CUTTING-EDGE JOURNALISM OF THE DAY: Courtesy of the
Times, 'ever fewer people outside the Vatican understand Latin.' Non, illa non potest essere! (
Tomorrow's headline, sneak preview: Anglo-Saxon native fluency dwindling; remedy sought in schools.) Latvian cardinal Janis Pujats is the last stalwart to speak only in Latin at episcopal synods, leading JP2 to quip, 'Paupera lingua latina, ultimum refugium habet in Riga.' The new pope should have them read
Wikipedia in Latinam. Nunc 3,715 articuli sunt. Iei! Urei! Et tu quoque adiuvare potes!
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