Reginaldus Thomas Foster is an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He formerly worked in the “Latin Letters” section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican and was the ‘Papal Latinist’ from 1969–2009. Hecontinues to teach summer classes in Latin at the University of Milwaukee, USA.

Daniel Patricius McCarthy, a student of Foster’s, is a monk at St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, USA and teaches Latin in London and Rome.