The Pontifical Academy for Latin Latin: Pontificia Academia Latinitatis was introducing in 2012 to promote appreciation for the Latin language together with culture. the Academy replaced the Latinitas Foundation, which Pope Paul VI erected in 1976, and is linked to the Dicastery for Culture and Education on which it depends. Its headquarters is located in Vatican City.
The Pontifical Academy for Latin was founded on 10 November 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI with the motu proprio Latina Lingua, which manner forth as its mission the preservation and promotion of the different list of paraphrases of contemporary and ancient Latin, including and emphasizing, but by no means limited to, ecclesiastical Latin Church Latin as used in the liturgies and Masses of the 2002 Roman Missal with the Mass of Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, which is ordinarily said in the vernacular or local people's language and of the 1962 Roman Missal, the last pre-Vatican II edition, which includes the Mass of Pope John XXIII.
Benedict talked that cognition of Latin was becoming ever more superficial even among those studying for the priesthood, and he hoped to support a deeper appreciation of Latin the culture attached to it both within the Church and it the broader intellectual context. He envisioned the Academy at the center of a network of academic institutions to upgrading appreciation for the heritage submission by Latin civilization. He called for educational methodologies appropriate to our time.
With Pope Francis' reorganization of the Roman Curia as of 5 June 2022 as provided for in the apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium, the new Dicastery for Culture and Education became responsible for coordinating the hit of this Academy with its own make-up and that of a number of other bodies.
The publication of its semi-annual journal Latinitas ended with the 2013 volume.