WILMINGTON, Del. — For a supposedly dead language, Latin is alive and well at some Catholic schools in the Wilmington, Del., Diocese. Although it was abandoned by most public schools in the past 40 ...

At Loyola High School in the 1950s, I didn’t find studying Latin as exhilarating as Gerard Gayou found it years later (“The Guiding Light of Latin Grammar,” Houses of Worship, June 23). I came away, ...

ALBANY — On a campus of 17,000 students and nine colleges, there is only one door marked “Latin Professor.” That belongs to Charles Giglio, the sole instructor keeping the ancient language on the ...