Jorge Enrique Mújica, Author at ZENIT - English

Licenciado en filosofía por el Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, de Roma, y “veterano” colaborador de medios impresos y digitales sobre argumentos religiosos y de comunicación. En la cuenta de Twitter: https://twitter.com/web_pastor, habla de Dios e internet y Church and media: evangelidigitalización."

Articles By Jorge Enrique Mújica

From Rome

Vatican Chronicles: Between Trips, Journalists, Fiducia Supplicans and Children Who Will Make Their First Communion

Week of Monday, January 22 to Sunday, January 28, 2024

Jan 29, 2024 14:26

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis

Vietnam, Polynesia, Canary Islands and Argentina: Pope Francis’ international travel agenda on the horizon

A television interview and two audiences, one with the president of the Canary Islands and the other with representatives of the Communist Party of Vietnam, offer clues to the Pope’s international travel plans for 2024.

Jan 23, 2024 02:08

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Dicasteries

Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith, Christian Unity and Damaged Ecumenism

It is reasonable to think that the inclusion of Cardinal Fernández [in the Dicastery for Christian Unity], is in line with his ability to know better the sensibility of a broad sector of world Christianity, with which he is not familiar, and that enrichment will redound to the good of the Dicastery he heads.

Jan 23, 2024 01:43

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Pope Francis•Rome

Pope Francis on Too Many Ecclesiastical Universities in Rome and the Challenge of What to Do About It

What the Pope said at the beginning of 2024 is not something new. It’s a subject that is on his mind. He mentioned it also an address on February 25, 2023, to the academic communities of the Roman Pontifical Universities and Institutions.

Jan 15, 2024 17:51

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Rome

Pope Francis Speaks for the First Time on Blessings for Gay Couples

Pope’s statements during an Italian TV program

Jan 14, 2024 16:52

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Pope Francis

New Gallup Poll Shows Approval and Disapproval Levels of Pope Francis in the U.S.

Among U.S. Catholics, the Pontiff enjoys even higher esteem, with a 77% favorable rating. However, this number is also below the average for this group, and his disapproval rate has reached a new high of 17%.

Jan 14, 2024 00:55

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Vatican City

Vatican Announces Restoration of the Vatican Basilica’s Bernini’s Canopy, Financed by the Knights of Columbus

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti stressed that it’s the first systematic and complete restoration 250 years after the last restoration, and 400 years after the beginning of works for the embellishment of the canopy.

Jan 11, 2024 17:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Rome

The Order of Malta, the 113 countries with which it has relations and the value of religious diplomacy

As of early 2024, the Order of Malta maintains diplomatic relations with 113 countries. In the last 40 years, it has expanded its diplomatic relations from 42 in 1981 to the current 113.

Jan 10, 2024 00:46

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Jubilee 2025•Rome•Vatican City

This Will Be the Rome of the 2025 Jubilee: 5G in the Entire City and New Streets and Parking Lots Around the Vatican

Although Jubilees sink their origin in a Jewish tradition taken up by Christianity, it was Boniface VIII who was the first to call one in 1300. Since then, a Jubilee is celebrated every 25 years. The last ordinary Holy Year was convoked and concluded by Saint John Paul II in the Year 2000.

Jan 10, 2024 00:35

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Vatican City•Vatican Diplomacy

With how many countries does the Vatican have diplomatic relations in 2024?

By the end of 2023, the United Nations recognizes a total of 195 countries. That would mean that the Holy See has no diplomatic relations with 11, making it one of the “countries” with the largest network of relations in the world.

Jan 08, 2024 00:26

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion

Fifteen Catholic Answers to Doubts About “New Pastoral Blessings” for Homosexuals

Fifteen answers to very concrete and specific doubts. We do not give the answers, but take them from the original document, to evidence in this way that many headlines read today are rather sensationalist.

Dec 18, 2023 14:50

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis

Where will Pope Francis be buried? He himself makes it known

The Roman basilica of St. Mary Major is the place chosen by Pope Francis to be buried.

Dec 13, 2023 14:31

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis explains the theological virtues as follows

Pope’s General Audience, April 24, 2024 on the theological virtues

Pope Francis Receives in Audience Woman with Lateral Amyotrophic Sclerosis

“Mrs Zeza” expressed her firm conviction that her faith is stronger than any illness. Her testimony spread widely on the Vatican’s social networks, where her words resounded profoundly in the Pope’s heart.