Vatican website will soon be available in Chinese

Inscriptiones Basilicae Sancti Petri: (this is a different building BTW; I just like the inscription)

IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST(olorum) PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT(ifex) MAX(imus) An(no) MDCXII PONT(ificatu) VII

TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM ET TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM

See:

Chinese speakers will soon be able to consult the Vatican's official website in their own language, the Holy See said Monday.

From Thursday, "Internet users from throughout the world will be able to navigate in Chinese to access the texts of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," the Vatican said in a statement.

Chinese will be the first non-European language on the site, www.vatican.va, which is already available in Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Latin.

It's a pity though that the Latin section of the Vatican's page is set up differently than the rest of the languages there, because otherwise it would have been possible to have a lot of side-by-side texts in Latin and Chinese like you can see with this one:

[Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Polish, Português]


You can see that this is the same text translated into all these seven languages, but Latin isn't there, more's the pity. If it were there then starting soon Latin students in China would all of a sudden have a ton of content that they could use to more effectively learn the language.