The Vatican has unveiled a new cute anime girl mascot, hoping to create characters that "can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations". The new character named…
  • SplashJacksonEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren’t they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like “Romanes eunt domus”?

    • caseyweedermanEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 minutes ago

        There’s Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese…there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren’t there?