St. Peter's Square in Vatican Photo: Clarín

The Vatican Basilica’s digital twin is born: online in December thanks to Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft

Vatican and Microsoft Join Forces to Digitally Recreate St. Peter’s Basilica, Opening Doors to Global Accessibility. Designed to benefit both general visitors and specialists, the digital Basilica will provide pilgrims with an immersive virtual journey and academics with a wealth of details invaluable for restoration and research.

Ecclesiology today: the crisis of Christianity and what we need now

In a homily delivered in 1959 a young Fr. Joseph Ratzinger described the first Christmas day as the “winter solstice of world history.” Christ is something more than another moral teacher or celebrity philanthropist and his Church—including the priesthood, the Petrine Office, and the episcopacy—is a sacred institution, not another multinational welfare agency.

Biden Admin Praised UN Report Calling for Election Observers on LGBT Issues

Reed’s report also calls for censorship and regulation of civil society organizations, traditional and social media in highly intrusive ways. It calls for aggressive content moderation and “responsibility for third party content” for social media companies and objects to exemptions from hate speech laws for media outlets when “reproducing or broadcasting direct speech of individual politicians, especially if transmitted live on air”