Catholic Media Journal

At the Vatican on February 12, 1931, radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi spoke these historic words:
I have the highest honor of announcing that in only a matter of seconds the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Pius XI, will inaugurate the Radio Station of the Vatican City State. The electric radio waves will transport to all the world his [...]

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The oldest of the mass media used today by the Vatican is L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, first published in 1861. Distributed throughout the world, weekly editions are published in 6 different languages and a Polish edition is published monthly. The Vatican’s website offers a brief history of the newspaper that highlights several undoubtedly [...]

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Shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, PBS, the USA’s Public Television Service, and Britain’s BBC produced a program titled White Smoke which addressed some of the issues facing the Church as we waited for the start of the conclave of Cardinals to elect the new Pope. One of the show’s [...]

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