Former dicasteries The Latin Letters Office is a department of the Roman Curia's Secretariat of State of the Holy See in Vatican City.
By the time of Pope Paul VI's reform of the Roman Curia, the office once known as Secretary for Briefs to Princes had been renamed more prosaically as the Latin Language Department of the First Section of the Secretariat of State.
Reginald Foster was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 14 November 1939.
When Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Caritas in veritate was published in July 2009, no Latin text was released, apparently for the first time.
The translators were still working on the document, and the Latin version was published only at the end of August – after it had been sent by DHL courier to Foster's sickbed for corrections.