Who is Fr. Reginald Foster?

I am happy to report that after almost 4 months in the hospital in Rome, Fr. Foster has returned home to Milwaukee for rehabilitation care. (Update and Address here.)
Unfortunately, he has announced that Summer School 2009 will be cancelled - read the letter from Fr. Foster.

Return to Learning Latin with Fr. Foster

Hear Fr. Foster on Vatican Radio: The Latin Lover

Please note: I am not Fr. Foster, and I am not in contact with him. To reach him, look at the last four (summer class) links for his address and write him yourself.

• The Roman Forum (2007)
• The Economist (2003)
• The New York Times (2004)
• Reuters (2004)
• USA Today (2005) (I'm quoted!)
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2005)
• 40 page article on Fr. Foster: Living with a Dead Language (The American Scholar 1995)
• The Catholic Herald (2002) (with photo)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (1999)
• The American Magazine (2004)
• Fr. Foster spoke at Notre Dame on 8/24/06
• A Blog on Fr. Foster's famous Ides of March tour of Rome in honor of Julius Caesar
• Another Blog reflects on Fr. Foster's classes.
• Fr. Foster was fired from Gregorian University and Jesuits Sack Foster but Classes have resumed!
• Fr. Reginald Foster: "Tridentine" Indult not going to happen
• Papal Latinist makes new push to save "dying" language - CNA
• Fr. Foster has a chapter in Appreciating the Collect: An Irenic Methodology (Purchase here) - perhaps the first time his pedagogy has been published.
• Interview on BBC Today - "Latin 'would make Pope speak less'" (Dec. 2008)
• Interview on BBC Heart and Soul - "The Bible" (May 2009 - Fr. Foster starts at 20:25)
• In Tribute to the World's Greatest Living Latinist - Fr. Foster quotes (June 2009)
• Articles on Wikipedia in English and Vicipaedia in Latinam

• Fr. Foster's summer classes
• More summer class
• Aestiva Romae Latinitas at Vicipaedia
• Ad Reginaldum

Fr. Foster on YouTube

Pictures of Fr. Foster (Click on image to see full size.)

Go here to see Our class trip to Formia - Home of Cicero, "Father of Latinity"

	I forgot who sent me this picture, sorry.
This is the picture I borrowed from the New York Times article above.
	Three of my pictures of Fr. Foster in action in the classroom. (The one below is the sharpest.)

Some more picture collected from various websites

I am saddened to report the Fr. Foster has been hospitalized since January 2009.
Unfortunately, I do not know the status of his condition, which is serious, so please keep him in your prayers.