{"id":30363,"date":"2014-01-30T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30363"},"modified":"2014-01-30T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:45:27","slug":"on-speaking-latin-reggie-foster-is-masterful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/on-speaking-latin-reggie-foster-is-masterful\/","title":{"rendered":"On speaking Latin Reggie Foster is masterful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Foster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30364 alignleft\" alt=\"Foster\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Foster.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a>A cultured person, that is, a person who considers himself a <em>sophisticated person<\/em>, is one who has some &#8211;if not a lot of&#8211; knowledge of the Latin language and culture. This is especially true for Western peoples (those of us who live in North &amp; South America, Western Europe).<\/p>\n<p>Benedictine Father Daniel McCarthy, a monk of St Benedict&#8217;s Abbey though working in England, is a former student of Father Reggie Foster, OCD, is now promoting the work of learning the language and culture. Father Reggie is likely the world&#8217;s foremost expert on Latin and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Dom Daniel has excelled in learning Latin in an era that is quickly rejecting its heritage and is doing what he can to expand our cultural horizons. In short: learn Latin (whatever age you happen to be).<\/p>\n<p>There is a Latin summer school in Milwaukee. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">More info<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/thelatinlanguage.org\"><strong>here at this link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Dom Daniel&#8217;s blog post, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thelatinlanguage.org\/featured\/speaking-latin\/\"><strong>Speaking Latin &#8211;Understanding the Latin Language<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultured person, that is, a person who considers himself a sophisticated person, is one who has some &#8211;if not a lot of&#8211; knowledge of the Latin language and culture. This is especially true for Western peoples (those of us who live in North &amp; South America, Western Europe). Benedictine Father Daniel McCarthy, a monk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/on-speaking-latin-reggie-foster-is-masterful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On speaking Latin Reggie Foster is masterful<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30365,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions\/30365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}