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Latin 'would make Pope speak less'

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is to edit the Today programme on Tuesday 30 December as a guest editor. One of his guests for the programme Father Reginald Foster, who has translated texts into Latin for various Popes, looks back on his most unusual career at the Vatican.

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