VATICAN CITY — Vatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age. A four-day symposium in the Vatican which …
Read Original Story: Facebook, Wikipedia execs brief Vatican on Web – The Associated Press
Execs from Facebook, youtube and Wikipedia have convened at a four-day conference in the Vatican to give advice on how the Catholic church can convey its message in the digital era. The execs will also offer advice on internet copyright and hacking. …
Read Original Story: Facebook, youtube and Wikipedia execs advise Vatican – StrategyEye (subscription)
On display in the modern art section of Vatican Museums is this artistic interpretation of the Gospel passage Matthew 5:8 (Blessed are the pure in heart) by French postimpressionist Paul Gauguin. Pope Paul VI inaugurated the Vatican’s …
Read Original Story: Reconcilable differences: The church reaches out to modern arts – The Pilot
The conclusion has been drawn by scientific experts called in by the Vatican to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life and its implications for the Church. It has been four centuries since the Catholic …
Read Original Story: Alien life is possible: Vatican – ABC Online
AP Writer Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life and its implication for the …
Read Original Story: Vatican looks to heavens for extraterrestrial life – The Durango Herald
According to the uk’s Telegraph, executives from Facebook, youtube, Google, and Wikipedia will be attending a specialized conference organized by none other than one of the world’s most powerful institutions: the Vatican. Bishops from varying European …
Read Original Story: Social media execs take “OMG” to a new level: the Vatican – Examiner.com
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The question of priestly celibacy is one that keeps bubbling to the surface at the Vatican, most often in the theoretical discussions of synods of bishops but more concretely in a new papal document on Anglicans …
Read Original Story: Married priests? For the Vatican, still an exception to the rule – Catholic News Service
Roman Catholic leaders stated on Thursday that the Church needs to have a greater presence in the ever expanding world of the Internet, which could make way for more “research, encounters, dialogue and prayer,” reported AFP. …
Read Original Story: Catholic Church Should Be More Involved On The Internet – RedOrbit
Two very different worlds collide this week when web-savvy executives of Google, Facebook, youtube and Wikipedia meet representatives of the Vatican to explain the mysteries of the internet. By Nick Squires in Rome Media experts will join bishops from …
Read Original Story: Google and Facebook teach Vatican the mysteries of the internet – Telegraph.co.uk
More than three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, according to a 2008 World Bank report, and about 25000 children die every day due to poverty, according to UNICEF. Hunger, disease, economic exploitation and lack of …
Read Original Story: Catholic Church spends on self while needy starve – Kansas State Collegian
