In Italian, people wish their loved ones a happy Easter by saying “Buona Pasqua.” Similar to Spanish and French, the word ‘Pasqua’ is also derived from the Hebrew word ‘pesah,’ which means ‘passover.’ ...

Mr. Burke, who was a spokesman for Pope Francis, teaches communications at IESE Business School in Barcelona. In 2016, I was working with a team in the Vatican to put Pope Francis on Instagram. I made ...

It can come as a surprise to many people in the U.K. and U.S. that speaking more than one language is the norm rather than the exception. In prehistoric times, most people belonged to small linguistic ...

When Jhumpa Lahiri was 32, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies”; it was only the seventh time a short-story collection had been so enshrined. “[R]ather precipitously, ...

ASK AND ye shall receive. Some 113 callers responded to Wednesday’s column with the questions about the name Costello and comedian Lou Costello. To refresh memories, I will go through the questions ...