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In praise of - tweeting in Latin.

Just as the Twittersphere is being forced to become more open and accountable, along comes an obscure message from out of the ether.

Gianfranco Ravasi, a 70-year-old Vatican cardinal and adviser to Pope Benedict XVI on matters cultural, this week deployed the 21st-century social medium to declare to the world the ancient language of Latin is alive and tweeting.

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