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This discussion of modern culture in a dead language isn’t new to McNamara, despite having only started his Latin studies two years ago. He spent last summer taking a Latin class at the Vatican, where he would “eat cheese, drink wine, and talk in Latin about Fashion Week in New York City...
...class, taught by renowned Vatican Latinist Father Reginald Foster, was the impetus for McNamara to apply for the Latin oration...
...sheer gravitational power of American life. Immigration renews the immigrant more than it renews America. The Catholics who so worried the Know-Nothings became champion practitioners of democratic politics; in the 20th century, their descendants' devotion to religious and political liberty helped convert the worldwide Roman Catholic Church at Vatican...
...CORRECTION: Though it wasn't clear if the phrase from the draft speech was actually the Pope's or that of then Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, it was excised from the official version released by the Vatican. It was an early sign that there might be problems in the way the new pontiff and his aides respond to diplomatic crises...
...CORRECTION: While still on the plane, Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi repeatedly tried to clarify the Pope's remarks. In the official transcript of the press conference released the next day, the Pope's response to the excommunication question was "cleaned up," and made to look as though he had merely been stating a general principle of Catholic canon law rather than responding to the current situation in Mexico...