The Vatican unveiled its latest innovation last Saturday: a news bulletin spoken entirely in Latin. Hebdomada Papae (“The Pope’s Week”) is a five-minute current affairs programme that will be broadcast at weekends on Vatican Radio’s Italian channel and posted to the website vaticannews.va. Communications chief Andrea Tornielli emphasises that the bulletin is an “actual, real news broadcast”. It is not, he says, “a nostalgic look at the past”, but rather “a challenge” to listeners to see Latin as a language with a future, not just an illustrious past.