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(NPR) Parvum Opus: Followers Flock To Pope's Latin Twitter Feed

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Kendall Harmon

Against all Vatican expectations, the pope’s has gained more than 100,000 followers in six months and continues to grow.

Followers are not exclusively Roman Catholics or Latin scholars, but represent a wide variety of professions and religions from all over the world. Some go so far as to claim that the language of the ancient Romans is perfectly suited to 21st-century social media.

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