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Facebook's Zuckerberg meets with Pontiff

August 29, 2016

Pope Francis met on August 29 with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and head of Facebook, and his wife.

A Vatican statement released after the meeting said that the Pope had spoken with Zuckerberg about "how to use communications technologies to alleviate poverty, to encourage a culture of encounter, and help deliver a message of hope, especially to those people who are most disadvantaged."

Although Pope Francis has admitted that he does not use a computer, he has shown a keen interest in the use of new communications technologies, and has met privately with several internet executives.

 

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  • Posted by: TheJournalist64 - Aug. 29, 2016 10:27 PM ET USA

    Mark Z is a notorious atheist, and he has done things that appear to be adverse to Catholicism. Is this an example of keeping our enemies closer?

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Memorial of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agnes (c. 304). St. Agnes, like St. Cecilia, is to be numbered among the most famous martyrs of Rome. When the Diocletian persecution was at its height, and when priests as well as laymen were apostatizing from the faith, Agnes, a girl of twelve, freely chose to die…

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