\nSo, in a bid to stem the decline, on Oct. 30 <\/sup>the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences launched a competition for journalists. An award will be given to the journalist who best shows an appreciation for Latin and Greek, demonstrates their relevance to <\/p>\nEurope<\/p>\n
\u2019s \u201ccultural and scientific\u201d development, and who brings the languages out of the realm of scholarship and into public understanding. <\/p>\n
The winner will be announced in May 2007 and receive a prize of 5,000 euros.<\/p>\n
The pontifical committee hopes the competition \u2014 the second in two years \u2014 will help address a serious problem in European schools and universities. According to committee members, the language\u2019s disappearance is damaging not only to historical studies but also to linguistic, philosophical and theological studies that are the foundation of European culture and represent a cultural inheritance for humanity.<\/p>\n
Father Cosimo Semeraro, secretary of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, said journalists have been targeted because of the key role they play as opinion-formers. <\/p>\n
\u201cJournalists have the possibility of making clear to politicians and those in government what happens when Latin and Greek are not taught in school and university,\u201d he told the Register Nov. 3. <\/p>\n
The competition has a European focus, Father Semeraro said, because the roots of Western culture are found in <\/p>\n
Europe<\/p>\n
. But he added that the committee also wants the rest of the world to \u201cthink very seriously\u201d about the importance of Latin and Greek.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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