Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church’s secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope. More than 1.3 million tweets have been published on X ...

"Toward Full Presence. A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media" is the title of a document from the Vatican Dicastery for Communication released May 29, 2023.

The Vatican’s pastoral reflection posits that social media’s constant demand for people’s attention “is similar to the process through which any temptation enters into the human heart and ...

The several cardinals with Twitter and Facebook accounts have been warned about using social media, and Wi-Fi will be blocked throughout Vatican City for the duration of the conclave.

The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life defended the COVID-19 vaccine and called out those who spread “malinformation” to discredit the vaccine as peddling “pure nonsense.” ...

It's something that's here to stay. McMonagle: I think the Vatican is seeing that technology and social media can have a positive effect on the number and type of people that we can reach.

But talking about a 'Vatican 2.0' still seems premature. The distinctive - and truly revolutionary - character of social media is not of a technological nature but, rather, of a philosophical one.

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on down. More than 1.3 ...

Asked about Italian media reports that Vatican authorities had authorized a covert surveillance operation to uncover those leakers — tapping phones and intercepting emails of prelates in the ...

All Vatican departments have some form of social media presence, but they tend not to engage with their audience and limit themselves to communicating information and updates. Fabrizio Mastrofini.

Vatican releases pastoral reflection on Christian engagement with social media Pope Francis during his general audience in Paul VI Hall on January 26, 2022./ Daniel Ibanez/CNA ...