by sjchurchadmin | Sep 11, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER In April, 2000, the Pokémon kiddie trading-card and computer game craze was soaring in Italy. Worried parents thought it was the work of the devil, but Pope John Paul II decided the game was good for children. The Vatican gave its blessing to the game...
by sjchurchadmin | Sep 1, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy at 3:36 AM on Wednesday August 24, 2016, killing more than 290 people. The region located about 65 miles northeast of Rome with its the picturesque mountain towns of Norcia, Lazio, Umbira and Le Marche...
by sjchurchadmin | Aug 26, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER …continued The first woman to be hired to work at the Vatican was Anna Pezzoli who in 1915 had a job planning papal celebrations. The biggest hiring push came after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Today there are about 750 women working...
by sjchurchadmin | Aug 26, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER There are about 750 women working in the Vatican which is about one fifth of all Vatican employees, and those women are not doing the cleaning jobs, those jobs are done by men. Most of the women are academics, such as archivists, art historians, office...
by sjchurchadmin | Aug 12, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around the world came to Krakow, Poland joining the native Polish youth July 26th through July 31st, 2016 for the Catholic event know as World Youth Day. It is a huge youth encounter focused on faith and is...
by sjchurchadmin | Aug 7, 2016 | Vatican Corner
VATICAN CORNER continued … In 1950 it was determined that the bones found in a tomb many feet beneath high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica were not those of St. Peter as originally thought. But the archeologists did conclude that it was indeed St. Peter’s grave...
