"The Latinist" is especially fun if you like your mysteries brainy. Prins vividly conveys the fascination of the arcane, coaxing us readers deep into the weeds of Tessa's research into Marius' work.

I n 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

Reginald Foster, a former plumber’s apprentice from Wisconsin who, in four decades as an official Latinist of the Vatican, dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately ...

A priest known for being a renowned Latinist and translator for four popes died after testing positive for COVID-19. Those who knew Father Reginald Foster said he was talented but down to earth.

Rome, Italy, Jan 30, 2007 / 09:20 am. Latin is a language that is integral to the life of the Church and it must be saved, says Papal Latinist Fr. Reginald Foster.

Foster, 81, a Milwaukee native and a priest in the Order of Discalced Carmelites, served nearly 40 years — and four popes — as the Vatican’s foremost Latinist.