Pope prays for George Floyd, says turning ‘blind eye’ to racism is intolerable
- Jun 3, 2020
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Vatican’s “Ironic Employment Division” strikes again
- Aug 31, 2019
Perhaps Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò’s first PR project at the Pontifical Academies for Science and for Social Sciences could be to explain what in the world he’s doing there in the first place.
Pope taps first lay person as head of a Vatican department
- Jul 5, 2018
Pope Francis has named a layman to head the Vatican’s troubled communications office, the first layman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia.
Hollywood meets Holy See: Making movies at the Vatican
- May 17, 2018
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When it comes to filmmaking inside the square or on Vatican property, only the Secretariat for Communication decides who gets the green light. They prefer documentaries.
Pope gets an unprecedented close-up, courtesy of Wim Wenders
- May 15, 2018
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When Wim Wenders first met Pope Francis before shooting the documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of his Word,” the pontiff warmly greeted the German filmmaker before warning Wenders that he is no movie buff.
‘Lettergate’ debacle unnecessary, but useful in surfacing tensions
- Mar 22, 2018
If you’re sitting on a letter from a pope, even an emeritus one, you’ve really only got two choices about what to do with it. Either you publish the entire thing, or you keep it to yourself.
How a Catholic reacts to the ‘Superpope’ shirt probably says a lot
- Oct 25, 2017
In January 2014, a Roman street artist put up an image of Pope Francis as a superhero on a street near the Vatican. City authorities scrubbed it off within 48 hours, but now it’s back in the form of a line of T-shirts, with proceeds going to papal charities and explicit Vatican support. Some Catholics may see that as exciting, others as a worrying risk of pursuing profit and celebrity under the guise of good intentions.
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