The Pope’s Big News Came in … Latin
Tourists walk past pictures of Pope Benedict XVI displayed in a shop in Rome, February 12, 2013. (Reuters/Tony Gentile)
He speaks Latin, he tweets in Latin, he even brought back the Latin mass. Now Pope Benedict has resigned in Latin, and not everyone understood what he was saying.
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