by John Freund, CM | Oct 7, 2013 | Pope, Technology: Issues and Uses
“Communication at the service of an authentic culture of encounter” The capacity to communicate is at the heart of what it means to be human. It is in and through our communication that we are able to meet and encounter at a meaningful level other people,...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 28, 2013 | Pope
Pope Francis explained during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta that to get to know Jesus, means that you must complicate your life. And that you cannot get to know him by flying “first class” in life. POPE FRANCIS “You cannot know Jesus without getting oneself...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Pope
What would you say is the major media innovation of Pope Francis? L’Osservatore Romano writes “I believe that the major innovation consists in his ability to make himself understood by people of every origin. ” “More than 9,300,000 followers and, thanks to...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Pope
So many words! So much spin! All set in motion by a 10,000 word interview with Pope Francis. No doubt the torrent will pick up pace. In places the interview seems to echo the words of another Pope some 50 years ago. “Scrape the barnacles of history off the bottom of...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 17, 2013 | Pope
Pope Francis is certainly having an impact with his simplicity and humility. People across a wide spectrum of believers, unbelievers and sceptics are paying attention. With The Francis Chronicles, reports on the ministry of the world’s parish priest, the NCR has...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 14, 2013 | Pope
The London Tablet writes that the Pope scales back honorifics. Pope Francis has temporarily stopped the practice of naming priests “honorary prelates”, which allows them to take the title “monsignor”. The only exception is for those clerics who...
