The Guardian: Vatican advises nuns not to overindulge in social media. “The Vatican has advised cloistered nuns not to overindulge in social media to avoid sullying their contemplative world with ‘noise, news and words’. In a document published by the Vatican’s office for religious life, nuns were told that while they were allowed to use Facebook or Twitter and read online news, they were advised to do so ‘with discretion and sobriety’.”
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America Magazine: Can the Catholic Church help young people figure out how to use social media?
America Magazine: Can the Catholic Church help young people figure out how to use social media?. “Rebecca Bratten Weiss knows the power of social media. It has allowed the writer and independent scholar to reach beyond her rural Ohio community and connect with other Catholic thinkers who help her develop ideas and form new relationships. She even has a new chapbook on poetry coming out, co-authored with another writer she met online. But she has fallen victim to the darker sides of digital culture as well.”
MIT Technology Review: AI tackles the Vatican’s secrets
MIT Technology Review: AI tackles the Vatican’s secrets. “Even church archivists don’t know what mysteries lie hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives, since many of its documents have never been transcribed. A machine-vision system for medieval text is about to change that.”
Telesur TV: Pope Francis to Declassify Files on Uruguay Dictatorship
Telesur TV: Pope Francis to Declassify Files on Uruguay Dictatorship. “Pope Francis is the second head of Catholicism to begin a declassification process of Vatican documents. Pope Francis ratified Monday his intention of declassifying Vatican’s archives on Uruguay’s military dictatorship, a process promoted by Pope Francis for a year.”
