With Gossip and History, a Carmelite Monk Breathes Life Into Latin

The Rev. Reginald Foster rarely misses a day teaching Latin, so the sign posted outside his classroom at the Pontifical Gregorian University takes some students by surprise.

It says: Cum Reginaldus noster a medicus (quos odit) teneatur, dubitat quin aulam veniat ad scholam Habendam. ... Non est in extremis! Or: "Since our Reginald is being held by the doctors (which he hates), he doubts he will be able to come to class. ... He is not

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