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Inter mirifica identifies social communication as the press, cinema, television, and other similar types of communication interfaces. The term social communications , apart from its more general use, has become the preferred term within documents of the Catholic Church for reference to media or mass media .
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
He is the first pope since Pope Pius X to live outside the papal apartments. [147] Francis still appears at the window of the Apostolic Palace for the Sunday Angelus. [148] As a Jesuit pope, Francis has been making clear that a fundamental task of the faithful is not so much to follow rules but to discern what God is calling them to do.
This is a list, in chronological order, of present and past offences to which the Catholic Church has attached the penalty of excommunication; the list is not exhaustive. In most cases these were " automatic excommunications", wherein the violator who knowingly breaks the rule is considered automatically excommunicated from the church ...
A pope who demonstrates that he is a man with his feet on the ground. [57] The washing of the feet angered many Catholic traditionalists. [58] Pope Francis had performed the Lenten washing of the feet, traditionally at Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, at a juvenile detention home and included two girls and two Muslims. He stated that he ...
Pope Francis warned that artificial intelligence could pose a risk to society, highlighting its “disruptive possibilities and ambivalent effects” and urging those who would develop or use AI ...
Popes who have an ordinal numeral in their name traditionally place the abbreviation "PP." before the ordinal numeral, as in "Benedictus PP. XVI" (Pope Benedict XVI), except in papal bulls of canonization and decrees of ecumenical councils, which a pope signs with the formula, "Ego N. Episcopus Ecclesiae catholicae", without the numeral, as in ...
The statement was astonishing because it listed abuses uncovered by the Vatican investigation that have rarely if ever been punished canonically — such as hacking someone’s communications ...