Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavenly Discs Sir: . . . We read with interest your March 9 review of Monsignor Ronald Knox's The Hidden Stream, and were quite amused by the quotation from the book: "All the identity discs in heaven are marked R.C. . . ." Jesus said a good deal about heaven, pointing out, in fact, that it is "within you." Monsignor Knox may be very surprised one fine day, after he leaves this world, to see "publicans and harlots" trooping on into heaven ahead of him. MR. & MRS. FRANCIS M. GARTH Newton Centre, Mass...
...drawbacks of advancing years," writes Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, in his latest book, The Hidden Stream, "that you never feel quite sure to what extent the coming generation has abandoned the idols of your youth." Monsignor Knox, 65, might reassure himself by looking at his own popularity. A shy but witty man with an archly pure sense of scholarship, Roman Catholic Knox, in his tastes and in the clarity of his thinking harks back to the rigorous England of his youth. Yet a modern public which by & large can no longer digest the simplest of his Latin quotations still queues...
...most people, 67-year-old Monsignor Antonio Bacci of the Vatican might seem a lonely man. He admits that he is-sometimes. His title is Secretary of Briefs to Princes, but not even the princes to whom he writes always understand what he says. The language Monsignor Bacci uses officially is an elegant Ciceronian Latin, and few men, says he ("inter doctos quoque viros"), can read it with ease...
...last ten years Monsignor Bacci has been doing his best to revive and enliven the Latin of Cicero (106-43 B.C.). As editor of the Latin Dictionary of Modern Terms, he has translated hundreds of post-Ciceronian words and phrases, from newspaper reporter (diurnarius scriptor-daily writer), to spaghetti (pasta vermiculata-little worm-shaped dough) and "Tennis, anyone?" ("Ludere manubriato reticulo quisnam vult?"-"Is there someone who wants to play the game of the net with handle?"). Last week, Monsignor Bacci was embarked upon a new project: publication of the world's first international Latin quarterly...
...Monsignor Bacci sees it, Latinitas is more than just a magazine. For Latin scholars everywhere, it should also be a call to arms. "It is our intention," he says in his statement of policy, "to rally . . the most excellent cultivators of a pure Latin style (latinitatis cultores optimos) so that they may contribute ... to its re-establishment and renewal." With the first issue of the magazine fresh off the press, readers can find out just what the most excellent cultivators...