“When Pope Leo XIV ascended to the papal throne, the choice of his name raised immediate curiosity. He did not choose a modern or popular papal name, but one deliberately echoing Pope Leo XIII, the author of the historic May 15, 1891 Papal Encyclical “Rerum Novarum: On Capital and Labor.” To the discerning eye, this was not merely symbolic—it was prophetic.
The Loud Cry, supporting The Third Angels Message, presents: “The Eclipse & The Serpent Deity” by David Barron.
In this video the host exposes the lies, deceptions and fear mongering behind the solar eclipse, as well as the mystery god and religion behind it. He also exposes the holidays that surround this mystery religion, and the truth of what God’s word says about them.
Episode 170: The hosts discuss some of the books of the Old Testament Apocrypha that the Roman Catholic church sees as canonical. Can any spiritual blessing be gained out of the studying of these books?
ENCYCLICAL LETTER FRATELLI TUTTI OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP
1. “FRATELLI TUTTI”.[1] With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel. Of the counsels Francis offered, I would like to select the one in which he calls for a love that transcends the barriers of geography and distance, and declares blessed all those who love their brother “as much when he is far away from him as when he is with him”.[2] In his simple and direct way, Saint Francis expressed the essence of a fraternal openness that allows us to acknowledge, appreciate and love each person, regardless of physical proximity, regardless of where he or she was born or lives.
The Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will contain “a great part of the episcopate,” with many participating bishops being elected by their peers.[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
“A traditional Mass community is trying to save a century-old church from demolition.”
PARIS, France, August 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — The Parisian church of Saint-Rita was evacuated by force on Wednesday morning by riot police while the traditional Mass was being celebrated.
Law enforcement stormed the building after having broken down the doors in order to evict everyone inside and remove the furnishings in application of an administrative order obtained by the property developer who intends to take down the century-old church to build apartments.
Photos of the evacuation were circulated widely on social networks. They showed a young priest, Father Jean-Francois Billot, being dragged bodily to the altar steps by riot police while the celebrant, Father Guillaume de Tanoüarn, who had not finished the consecration, quickly consumed the Host in order to avoid desecration. He was escorted out of the building in full traditional vestments.
GodSeesEverything says the fallen angels, nephilim, are real. The greatly popularised phenomenon of ufology is the work of demons. The world will make disclosure regarding UFO’s – this is a deception by Lucifer. Remember the Vatican has already said that they would baptise aliens (see here) and that there may have to be a re-think about the gospel (see here). So even the Roman Catholic Church are part of this deception. Don’t be deceived!
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
(Rev 19:11-21)
The Society of the Jesuits was founded in 1540, just eleven years after the Christian church had come out of the Roman sect, and assumed the name of Protestants. The singular originator of the new order, was Ignatius Loyola, a native of Biscay. He had, when a soldier, received a severe wound in the service of Ferdinand V. of Spain in 1521 ; and he had been long confined in a place where he had access, probably, to no other books than The Lives of the Saints, It is not to be wondered at that his mind was thence turned away from military enthusiasm, to ghostly fanaticism. When recovered, he speedily gave proofs of his insane fanaticism by assuming the name and office of *’ Knight of the Virgin Mary.” And like a good type of the future Don Quixote, he pursued with solemn gravity, a course of the wildest and most extravagant adventures ; in the belief that he was her most exalted favourite. Continue reading SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS→
2016-07-27 (Vatican Radio) Referring to recent acts of violence, Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the world is at war but stressed
“it is not a war of religions but for power. “It is,” he continued, “a war about (economic) interests, money, natural resources and the domination of peoples.”
Did the Catholic Church help German Nazism? A look at the record.
“Antagonism to the Jews of today must not be extended to the books of Pre-Christian Judaism.” – Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber in the Advent sermons, delivered in 1933.
Fascism is being used by governments and religious institutions worldwide. Propaganda bombards us via the bought media selling us the false flags exercises that are being implemented to move hearts and minds. Meanwhile modern day ‘Dr Mengeles’ are funded to produce medical experiments from Ebola to Zika and HIV to cancer throughout the world. Continue reading FASCISM: Is real. Religious Politics→
The article below was featured on CNN.money. Now that begs the question – what religious interest has CNN Financial reporting. The short answer is None. That’s right – there is nothing religious to report here. The significant role players are two CEOs of two business organisations where God takes a back seat or does not exist at all, or not in the Christian sense anyway. The omnipotent god here is Money and that is what CNN.money is reporting on.
If you have been misled into believing that the leader of the Catholic church is going to save your soul, then you’re wrong. It is Jesus that saves souls. This alleged, so-called Christian leader is more interested in making money than he is in praying to Jesus directly. Who is his God? He’ll pray to God, and to Christ- but Pope Francis never prays directly to Jesus. And as we are advised:
And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.
(Rev 18:23)
Francis with the Broken Cross Staff on April 7, 2013, at St. John Lateran
It was just a matter of time…Francis Brings Back Bent Cross
It was bound to happen. Mr. Jorge Bergoglio – whom the world calls “Pope Francis” – has reintroduced the repulsive ‘Bent Cross’ Crozier (sometimes referred to as the “Broken Cross”), after Benedict XVI had, for the most part, abandoned it. The “bent cross” ferula, or staff, which is a hideous rendition of a crucifix, shows our Lord’s legs immodestly spread apart and shows the cross bars bent, rather than straight. Continue reading Francis brings back the Bent Cross, Broken Cross→
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Including a Database of Publicly Accused Argentine Clerics
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2013 and president of the Argentine bishops’ conference from 2005 to 2011. During these years, as church officials in the US and Europe began addressing the catastrophe of child sexual abuse by clergy – and even as Popes John Paul II and Benedict made public statements – Bergoglio stayed silent about the crisis in Argentina.
He released no documents, no names of accused priests, no tallies of accused priests, no policy for handling abuse, not even an apology to victims.
In his many homilies and statements (archived on the Buenos Aires archdiocesan website), he attacked government corruption, wealth inequities, and human sex trafficking, but he said nothing about sexual violence by priests.
In On Heaven and Earth (first published in Spanish in 2010), a wide-ranging collection of conversations with Argentine rabbi Abraham Skorka, he suggested in fact that the problem did not exist in his archdiocese…..
Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign over sexual abuse scandals in his Boston archdiocese, where 150 priests were accused of molesting children. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty
Vatican guide says ‘not necessarily’ bishop’s duty to report suspects to police despite Pope Francis’s vows to redress Catholic church’s legacy of child abuse.
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Wednesday 10 February 2016
The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
The Observer has obtained a 40-year-old confidential document from the secret Vatican archive which lawyers are calling a ‘blueprint for deception and concealment’. One British lawyer acting for Church child abuse victims has described it as ‘explosive’.
The 69-page Latin document bearing the seal of Pope John XXIII was sent to every bishop in the world. The instructions outline a policy of ‘strictest’ secrecy in dealing with allegations of sexual abuse and threatens those who speak out with excommunication. Continue reading Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse→
For six months, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder had extraordinary access to Pope Francis at the Vatican, an experience that he expects he will one day look back on as “surreal.”
“The Rev. Thomas Rosica is CEO of Canada’s Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation and English-language media attache to the Holy See Press Office.”
(CNN)Pope Francis seems to be obsessed with the devil.His tweets and homilies about the devil, Satan, the Accuser, the Evil One, the Father of Lies, the Ancient Serpent, the Tempter, the Seducer, the Great Dragon, the Enemy and just plain “demon” are now legion.For Francis, the devil is not a myth, but a real person. Many modern people may greet the Pope’s insistence on the devil with a dismissive, cultural affectation, indifference, or at the most indulgent curiosity.
Yet Francis refers to the devil continually. He does not believe him to be a myth, but a real person, the most insidious enemy of the church. Several of my theologian colleagues have said that he has gone a bit overboard with the devil and hell! We may be tempted to ask, why in the devil is Pope Francis so involved with the prince of demons?
This intelligent Jesuit Pope is diving into deep theological waters, places where very few modern Catholic clerics wish to tread.
Francis’ seeming preoccupation with the devil is not a theological or eschatological question as much as a call to arms, an invitation to immediate action, offering very concrete steps to do combat with the devil and the reign of evil in the world today.
In his homilies, Francis warns people strongly to avoid discouragement, to seize hope, to move on with courage and not to fall prey to negativity or cynicism.
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He is drawing on the fundamental insight of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, the Pope’s own religious family. With his continual references to the devil, Pope Francis parts ways with the current preaching in the church, which is far too silent about the devil and his insidious ways or reduces him to a mere metaphor.
During the first months of Francis’ pontificate in 2013, the Evil One appeared frequently in his messages. In his first major address to the cardinals who elected him, the Argentine pontiff reminded them: “Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.”
In several daily homilies in the chapel of the Vatican guest house, the Pope shared devilish stories with the small congregations rapt in attention as he homilized on taboo topics.
He has offered guidelines on how to rout the demon’s strategy: First, it is Jesus who battles the devil.
The second is that “we cannot obtain the victory of Jesus over evil and the devil by halves,” for as Christ said in the Gospel of Matthew, “who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
The Pope has stressed that we must not be naive: “The demon is shrewd: he is never cast out forever, this will only happen on the last day.”
Francis has also issued calls to arms in his homilies: “The devil also exists in the 21st century, and we need to learn from the Gospel how to battle against him,” the Pope warned, adding that Christians should not be “naive” about the evil one’s ways. The devil is anything but a relic of the past, the pontiff said.
Acknowledging the devil’s shrewdness, Francis once preached: “The devil is intelligent, he knows more theology than all the theologians together.”
Before a crowd of people on Palm Sunday in 2013, the newly elected Pope even dared to say that when Christians face trials, Jesus is near, but so is “the enemy — the devil,” who “comes, often disguised as an angel and slyly speaks his word to us.”
Most recently, on July 12, in the prepared text he was to deliver (in typical fashion he instead gave a masterful, unscripted address to 600,000 young people at a rally in Paraguay), the Pope presented the job description of the devil:
“Friends: the devil is a con artist. He makes promises after promise, but he never delivers. He’ll never really do anything he says. He doesn’t make good on his promises. He makes you want things which he can’t give, whether you get them or not. He makes you put your hopes in things which will never make you happy.
“… He is a con artist because he tells us that we have to abandon our friends, and never to stand by anyone. Everything is based on appearances. He makes you think that your worth depends on how much you possess.”
Since the beginning of his papacy, Francis has been warning that whoever wants to follow Jesus must be aware of the reality of the devil. The life of every Christian is a constant battle against evil, just as Jesus during his life had to struggle against the devil and his many temptations.
For Francis, the spirit of evil ultimately does not want our holiness, he does not want our Christian witness, he does not want us to be disciples of Christ.
In all of these references to the devil and his many disguises, Pope Francis wishes to call everyone back to reality. The devil is so frequently active in our lives and in the church, drawing us into negativity, cynicism, despair, meanness of spirit, sadness and nostalgia.
We must react to the devil, Francis says, as did Jesus, who replied with the Word of God. With the prince of this world one cannot dialogue.
Dialogue is necessary among us, it is necessary for peace, it is an attitude that we must have among ourselves in order to hear each other, to understand each other. Dialogue is born from charity, from love.
But with the Dark Prince one cannot dialogue; one can only respond with the Word of God that defends us.
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The devil has made a comeback in this pontificate and is playing an important role in Francis’ ministry. Francis is dead serious about the devil! And he takes every opportunity he can to tell the devil to get the hell out of our lives and our world.
It’s not that Francis has been focusing on the evil one’s power, nor has he been mesmerized by the Harry Potter movies or by a desire to do sequels to the “Exorcist” movie: This Pope doesn’t watch TV!
All of the temptations Francis speaks about so often are the realistic flip side to the heart of the Argentine Jesuit Pope’s message about the world that is charged with the grandeur, mercy, presence and fidelity of God. Those powers are far greater than the devil’s antics.
Pope Francis tries on a traditional sombrero he received as a gift from a Mexican journalist on Friday, February 12, aboard a plane during his flight from Rome to Habana, Cuba. The voyage kicks off his week-long trip to Mexico. With his penchant for crowd-pleasing and spontaneous acts of compassion, Pope Francis has earned high praise from fellow Catholics and others since he replaced Pope Benedict XVI in March 2013. 1 of 34
Pope Francis arrives for his visit with prisoners in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on Friday, July 10. The Pope emphasized the plight of the poor during his eight-day tour of South America, which also included stops in Ecuador and Paraguay. 2 of 34
Bolivian President Evo Morales presents the Pope with a gift of a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle — the Communist symbol uniting laborers and peasants — in La Paz, Bolivia, on Wednesday, July 8. 3 of 34
Pope Francis greets a crowd of Italian Catholic boy scouts and girl guides at St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, June 13. 4 of 34
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday, June 10. The Pope gave Putin a medallion depicting the angel of peace, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said. The Vatican called it “an invitation to build a world of solidarity and peace founded on justice.” Lombardi said the pontiff and President talked for 50 minutes about the crisis in Ukraine and violence in Iraq and Syria. 5 of 34
Pope Francis meets with Cuban President Raul Castro at the Vatican on Sunday, May 10. Castro thanked the Pope for his role in brokering the rapprochement between Havana and Washington. 6 of 34
The Pope prays face down on the floor of St. Peter’s Basilica during Good Friday celebrations at the Vatican on Friday, April 3. 7 of 34
Pope Francis touches a child’s face as he arrives for a meeting in the Vatican on Friday, March 6. 8 of 34
Hindu priest Kurakkal SivaSri T. Mahadeva presents a shawl to Pope Francis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday, January 13. 9 of 34
The Pope attends Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. 10 of 34
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I address the faithful in Istanbul on Sunday, November 30. 11 of 34
Pope Francis speaks during the feast-day Mass while on a one-day trip to the Calabrian region of Italy in June 2014. The Pope spoke out against the Mafia’s “adoration of evil and contempt for the common good,” and declared that “mafiosi are excommunicated, not in communion with God.” 12 of 34
Pope Francis prays next to a rabbi at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City in May 2014. The Pope went on a three-day trip to the Holy Land, and he was accompanied by Jewish and Muslim leaders from his home country of Argentina. 13 of 34
The Pope meets faithfuls as he visits the San Gregorio Parish in Rome in April 2014. 14 of 34
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, have an audience with the Pope during their one-day visit to Rome in April 2014. 15 of 34
Francis speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama, who visited the Vatican in March 2014. 16 of 34
The Pope blesses the altar at Rome’s Santa Sabina church as he celebrates Mass on Ash Wednesday in March 2014. 17 of 34
Daniele De Sanctis, a 19-month-old child dressed up as a pope, is handed to Francis as the pontiff is driven through the crowd in St. Peter’s Square in February 2014. 18 of 34
Wind blows the papal skullcap off Pope Francis’ head in February 2014. 19 of 34
A lamb is placed around Francis’ neck in January 2014 as he visits a living nativity scene staged at a church on the outskirts of Rome. 20 of 34
Pope Francis meets with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the Vatican in December 2013. Benedict surprised the world by resigning “because of advanced age.” It was the first time a pope has stepped down in nearly 600 years. 21 of 34
Pope Francis marked his 77th birthday in December 2013 by hosting homeless men to a Mass and a meal at the Vatican. One of the men brought his dog. 22 of 34
Pope Francis embraced Vinicio Riva, a disfigured man who suffers from a non-infectious genetic disease, during a public audience at the Vatican in November 2013. Riva then buried his head in the Pope’s chest. 23 of 34
Pope Francis jokes in November 2013 with members of the Rainbow Association, which uses clown therapy in hospitals, nursing homes and orphanages. 24 of 34
A young boy hugs Francis as he delivers a speech in St. Peter’s Square in October 2013. The boy, part of a group of children sitting around the stage, played around the Pope as the Pope continued his speech and occasionally patted the boy’s head. 25 of 34
Francis has eschewed fancy cars. Here, Father Don Renzo Zocca, second from right, offers his white Renault 4L to the Pope during a meeting at the Vatican in September 2013. 26 of 34
Francis has his picture taken inside St. Peter’s Basilica with youths who came to Rome for a pilgrimage in August 2013. 27 of 34
During an impromptu news conference in July 2013, while on a plane from Brazil to Rome, the Pope said about gay priests, “Who am I to judge?” Many saw the move as the opening of a more tolerant era in the Catholic Church. 28 of 34
Crowds swarm the Pope as he makes his way through World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in July 2013. According to the Vatican, 1 million people turned out to see the Pope. 29 of 34
Francis frees a dove in May 2013 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square. 30 of 34
Francis embraces a young boy with cerebral palsy in March 2013 — a gesture that many took as a heartwarming token of the Pope’s self-stated desire to “be close to the people.” 31 of 34
The Pope washes the feet of juvenile offenders, including Muslim women, as part of Holy Thursday rituals in March 2013. The act commemorates Jesus’ washing of the Apostles’ feet during the Last Supper. 32 of 34
Francis stands at the reception desk of the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI residence, where he paid the bill for his stay during the conclave that would elect him leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. 33 of 34
Francis, formerly known as Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was elected the Roman Catholic Church’s 266th Pope in March 2013. The first pontiff from Latin America was also the first to take the name Francis. 34 of 34
And receives lavish donations from them. Name by name, all the magnates of finance and technocracy to whom the pope has given audience this year
by Sandro Magister
ROME, March 11, 2016 –Pope Francis is relentless against the rich gluttons who famish the poor Lazaruses, against what he calls the “economy that kills.”
And yet the richest men of the world and the moguls of high finance throng to be received by him. And he not only welcomes them with open arms, but he showers them with praise.
Christine Lagarde
The latest to benefit from the pope’s appreciation was Christine Lagarde, received at the Vatican last January 18, who was reconfirmed in February as head of the International Monetary Fund and in early March was praised by Francis as
“an intelligent woman who maintains that money must be at the service of humanity, and not the other way around,”
in front of a group of stunned socialist French Catholics.
At the beginning of his pontificate Jorge Mario Bergoglio had surprised everyone, preaching a Church “poor and for the poor,” and at the same time calling in to advise the Vatican the most famous and expensive finance and management firms in the world, from McKinsey to Ernst & Young, from Promontory to KPMG.
But now the tune has changed. It is no longer the Vatican coffers that are paying the bills of these corporations, it is the great impresarios admitted to speak with the pope who are making him the offer of lavish donations.
There are those who don’t talk about it and those who do. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, made no mystery of having handed a contribution to Francis (see photo) during the audience that like others of its kind took place not in the prosaic residence of Santa Marta, but in the solemn papal library of the Apostolic Palace.
And on January 28 Leonardo Di Caprio did the same. In the video of the meeting he can be seen giving the pope an envelope with a check “for works of charity close to your heart.” More than as a film actor, Di Caprio had obtained an audience as the head of a foundation against global warming, in the name of which he had spoken a few days earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he received an award.
Pope Francis had also made his voice heard at the Forum in Davos, with a message in defense of creation and for an “integral” development of man. And to Di Caprio, as to many others, he gave a red-bound copy of his encyclical “Laudato Si’.”
Nature and technocracy, this is the winning combination. Seven days before the audience with Tim Cook of Apple, Pope Bergoglio received the chief of Google, Eric Schmidt, accompanied by the head of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, they too with a foundation engaged on the fronts of poverty, energy, and the environment, whose imperative is “Don’t be evil.”
And at the end of February he received Kevin Systrom, founder and CEO of Instagram, the photo-based social network with 400 million users worldwide. Also in February, Pope Francis met with a delegation of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, headed by global president Yolanda Kakabadse.
But the biggest coup in this area was the film “son et lumière,” projected on the evening of December 8, the opening day of the Jubilee of Mercy, on the facade and dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica, a highly controversial film, a hymn to nature without the slightest reference to the Creator, and also very expensive but entirely offered to the pope by the World Bank, the Okeanos foundation, and Vulcan Inc. of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
And Francis just narrowly missed receiving in audience Bill Gates himself, the absolute top dog of Microsoft, in addition to being the richest man in the world according to the Forbes ranking. The proposal was shot down by a pair of African cardinals, who reminded the pope that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is highly active in promoting abortion in poor countries.
No objection, however, to the man in the second spot on the Forbes list, the Mexican Carlos Slim, a telecommunications magnate. The broadcasts and press centers for Francis’s journey to Mexico last February were entirely paid for by him.
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This commentary was published in “L’Espresso” no. 11 of 2016 on newsstands as of March 11, on the opinion page entitled “Settimo cielo” entrusted to Sandro Magister.
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, had an unusual meeting on his calendar on Friday — a private sit-down with Pope Francis at the Vatican.Neither Google nor the Vatican would comment on what the two discussed during the meeting, said to have lasted 15 minutes.
A video report from the TV news agency Rome Reports showed the pontiff shaking hands with Schmidt and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas. Schmidt said to Francis, “I want to work with you to make these points. … We will make it happen.” The pope responded, “Pray for me. Don’t forget.” It’s not known what the two were referring to.
Although Francis has admitted he doesn’t know how to work a computer and has called the Internet a “gift from God,” he is no stranger to Google products. The 79-year-old pontiff has hosted two Google Hangouts from the Vatican, including one in which he confessed he’s a “dinosaur” when it comes to technology.
Pope Francis meets with , Kevin Systrom, the CEO and co-founder of Instagram, the photo-sharing social network – REUTERS
27/02/2016 15:04
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday met with the CEO and co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom. The photo-sharing social network was founded in 2010, and bought by Facebook in 2012. Over 300 million people use the service each month. Continue reading Pope Francis meets with CEO of Instagram, Kevin Systrom→
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday met in the Vatican with Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
The two also met in the Vatican on 10 December 2014.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is composed of 188 countries, was established in 1944 to help manage countries’ balance of payments. According to its website, it is
“working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.”
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