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The Vatican News App is an official mobile application software issued by the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication. [1] [2] Formerly titled The Pope App, the app was launched on January 23, 2013 under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, a now-defunct dicastery that was merged into the Secretariat (now Dicastery) for Communication in March 2016.
The first pope from modern-day Portugal. Patron of Jerome, commissioned the Vulgate translation of the Bible. Pope during the First Council of Constantinople (381), the second ecumenical council, and the Council of Rome (382). First pope to be the official head of the church after the Emperor Gratian abdicates the title of "Pontifex Maximus". —
August 26, 1978: Pope John Paul I becomes the first pope to use a double regnal name. He reigns for only 33 days. October 16, 1978: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Polish pope and first non-Italian pope elected in 450 years; influential in overthrowing communism in Poland. 1979: Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Church schools are likely to feature prominently in a report from the U.S. Department of the Interior, led by the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, due to be released ...
Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according to a programme released by the Vatican on ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Stories of a Generation – with Pope Francis is a 4-part 2021 documentary ...
Pope Francis on Sunday said he hopes to make his first trip to his homeland of Argentina since becoming pontiff more than a decade ago, as the South American nation grapples with an economic crisis.
A year later, Juan Diego was canonized by Pope John Paul II. [citation needed] Guadalupe is often considered a mixture of the cultures which blend to form Mexico, both racially [28] and religiously. [29] Guadalupe is sometimes called the "first mestiza" [30] or "the first Mexican".