{"id":5269,"date":"2006-10-16T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/whither-reggie-foster.html"},"modified":"2006-10-16T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T15:24:08","slug":"whither-reggie-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/whither-reggie-foster.html","title":{"rendered":"Whither Reggie Foster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Fired" from the Gregorian?<\/a><\/p>\n

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He’s famous in the Vatican. His name is Fr. Reginald Foster, O.C.D., a Carmelite priest from near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a student in Rome in the early 1960s, was ordained there, and has lived there since. Since 1975 he has been teaching Latin full-time at Rome’s Jesuit University, the Gregoriana. He also is the world’s most famous living latinist, having worked in that capacity for four popes for nearly forty years.<\/p>\n

Every October Fr. Reginald has a first meeting for his new and former Latin students in his popular upper classroom at the Gregoriana. Typically, over one-hundred Latin students from all over the world are gathered.<\/p>\n

This year, the class meeting was a little different. Today, Fr. Foster announced with great regret that his renowned Latin program would no longer be held there, after over thirty years, as per the Jesuit administration.<\/p>\n

"Last Saturday evening," he explained, "We received a scrambled e-mail at my residence in Rome (the Teresianum), not addressed to me, but to my superior." The letter explained that, "Fr. Foster would be no longer teaching Latin at the Gregoriana."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More.<\/a><\/p>\n

A webpage dedicated to Fr. Foster – with archives of his programs "The Latin Lover," that is aired on Vatican Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to the Shrine of the Holy Whapping, and scroll down to 3\/20 for an account of Foster’s "Ides of March" tour in Rome.<\/a><\/p>\n

Comments closed off because…there’s always more to the story! See Zadok’s comment for reassurance about the Jesuits and Latin…<\/em><\/p>\n

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