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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.
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. It has the advantage, as a term, of ...
Pope Francis [b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [c] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Fact Check: Social media users are claiming that Pope Francis is opening five “sacred portals” in a ritual that “has never been done before.” “BREAKING: Pope to Open 5 Sacred Portals on ...
The pope explains that the Church is called to spread the Gospel and the message of salvation by using contemporary communications which is, “today more than ever” , an important part of the 21st century. Pope John Paul II then explains that we live in “an age of global communication” where we are exposed to different mass media outlets.
The honorific "pope" was from the early 3rd century used for any bishop in the West, and is known in Greek as far back as Homer's Odyssey (6:57). In the East, "pope" is still a common form of address for clergy in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, and is the style of the bishop of Alexandria.
Pope Francis established the Secretariat for Communication in June 2015, [1] [2] with Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, former director of the Vatican Television Center, as its first prefect. [3] Viganò resigned on 21 March 2018, "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".
The pope also mentions the third anniversary of the war against Ukraine, while praying for the “gift of peace in Palestine, Israel and throughout the Middle East, Myanmar, Kivu and Sudan.”