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Rufinus of Aquileia's History of the Church, published in 402 or 403, is a translation and continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius's history tells the story of Christianity from its beginning down to the year 325; Rufinus carries the story forward to 395, the year of the death of Theodosius I. Rufinus demonstrates both a superb understanding of Eusebius's text and a tendency to translate it freely or even to misrepresent it when he judges that it does not do justice to the unity of faith and order which he is convinced is an essential element of the church’s constitution. He excises and rewrites passages liberally, but he retains in his translation Eusebius's revolutionary citation of sources, a historiographical method which would eventually prove so fruitful in the literature of the Latin church.

Mark Clark and Jack Clark wrote How To Teach Your Children the Latin of the Church based on their experience teaching and learning Latin. They wanted to teach and to learn Latin well enough to speak, read, and write it, and close friends of theirs, notably David Morgan and Jim Dobreff, helped them learn and learn how. The main principles are simple: learn by sounds whenever possible; and learn from things that are most familiar first. All humans speak mainly using figurative language by the time they're teenagers and even well before, but young children first learn primitive significations, the building blocks of all languages and language learning. The authors thought about how to do this in Latin for others without pointing out objects around the house and the yard and the town, and using the biblical text, and especially well-known narratives, occurred to both as the best and simplest way to create that situation. Anyone using this book will want to read and imitate everything aloud, from the biblical excerpts in the vocabulary lists to the exercises to the stories themselves. Most will know the stories in their native tongues, and once readers work the Latin in this book into their senses, from their ears to their mouths etc., making sure not to think in English, it won't be long until the brain does what it does best, which is to think in whatever language it's absorbing.