{"id":1593,"date":"2014-05-06T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","slug":"social-media-and-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/05\/06\/social-media-and-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Social Media and the Vatican<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April was a social media event. \u00a0A special\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2popesaints.org\/IT\/Home\">\u00a0website was created<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0has event schedules,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2popesaints.org\/IT\/GiovanniPaoloII\">biographies of the popes<\/a>\u00a0and explanations of their \u00a0canonisations.\u00a0 You can also view online\u00a0videos of the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>There was a Twitter handle<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2popesaints\">@2popesaints<\/a>.\u00a0 This makes interesting reading with photographs, photos and cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>Plus a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2popesaints\">Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vatican\">YouTube channel of the Vatican<\/a>\u00a0also has videos of events.<\/p>\n<p>For background information on the process of beatification and canonization see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The free version of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/02364b.htm\">Catholic Encyclopaedia\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(1907)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/upload\/making-saints.pdf\">U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/a>\u00a0backgrounder<\/li>\n<li>For more detailed information see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/csaints\/\">Vatican website for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media and the Vatican The canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April was a social media event. \u00a0A special\u00a0\u00a0website was created.\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0has event schedules,\u00a0biographies of the popes\u00a0and explanations of their \u00a0canonisations.\u00a0 You can also view online\u00a0videos of the ceremonies. There was a Twitter handle@2popesaints.\u00a0 This makes interesting reading with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[61,241,71,77,82],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-internet","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-religion","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}