Tag: Vatican
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Old Church Meets New Technology
From St. Peter to Silicon Valley: How the Catholic Church Entered the Digital Age By Catholicg33k | Faith • Technology • Evangelization The Catholic Church is nearly 2,000 years old. The World Wide Web is only a few decades old. Yet when these two worlds came together, they opened an extraordinary new chapter in the…
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Michelangelo, the Catholic Church, and the Mysteries Hidden in His Art
Michelangelo Buonarroti was not simply one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was also a man whose life became inseparably connected with the Catholic Church. Born in AD 1475, Michelangelo lived during one of the most dramatic periods in Church history. Renaissance Rome was filled with extraordinary beauty, political struggle, corruption, reform movements,…
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A Mosque in the Vatican? What Really Happened With the Muslim Prayer Room in the Vatican Library
Sometimes a headline tells the truth and still leaves the reader with a false impression. That appears to be what happened when reports began circulating that the Vatican had opened a “Muslim prayer room” inside the Vatican Apostolic Library. The reaction was immediate. Some Catholics saw the story and concluded that Islam had been given…