scholarly journals Effects of Pope Francis’ Religious Authority and Media Coverage on Twitter User’s Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccination

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1487
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Gaweł ◽  
Marzena Mańdziuk ◽  
Marek Żmudziński ◽  
Małgorzata Gosek ◽  
Marlena Krawczyk-Suszek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source Software ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Vaccination Campaign ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Made In

This paper is interdisciplinary and combines the research perspective of medical studies with that of media and social communication studies and theological studies. The main goal of this article is to determine [from arguments on all sides of the issue] whether, and to what extent, statements issued by a religious authority can be used as an argument in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The authors also want to find answers to the questions of how the pope’s comments affect public opinion when they concern the sphere of secular and everyday life, including issues related to health care. The main method used in this study is desktop research and the analysis of the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on vaccination and on the types and significance of the pope’s statements on various topics. The auxiliary methods are sentiment analysis and network analysis made in the open source software Gephi. The authors are strongly interested in the communication and media aspect of the analyzed situation. Pope Francis’ voice on the COVID-19 vaccination has certainly been noticed and registered worldwide, but the effectiveness of his message and direct impact on Catholics’ decisions to accept or refuse the COVID-19 vaccination is quite questionable and would require further precise research. Comparing this to the regularities known from political marketing, one would think that the pope’s statement would not convince the firm opponents of vaccination.

II. Modernization of the Papacy and Catholicism in the Postmodern: Legacy and Challenges to Vatican I

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Massimo Faggioli
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican I ◽  
The One ◽  
Pius Ix ◽  
The Way

In the ongoing aggiornamento of the aggiornamento of Vatican II by Pope Francis, it would be easy to forget or dismiss the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Vatican I (1869–1870). The council planned (since at least the Syllabus of Errors of 1864), shaped, and influenced by Pius IX was the most important ecclesial event in the lives of those who made Vatican II: almost a thousand of the council fathers of Vatican II were born between 1871 and 1900. Vatican I was in itself also a kind of ultramontanist “modernization” of the Roman Catholic Church, which paved the way for the aggiornamento of Vatican II and still shapes the post–Vatican II church especially for what concerns the Petrine ministry.

Exploring the Possible Contributions of the African Palaver towards a Participatory Synodal Church

Exchange ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 209-237
Author(s):  
Stan Chu Ilo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

Abstract This essay argues for a participatory synodal Church and the possible contributions of the African palaver as a model for participatory dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church. The African palaver is the art of conversation, dialogue, and consensus-building in traditional society that can be appropriated in the current search for a more inclusive and expansive participatory dialogue at all levels of the life of the Church. I will develop this essay first by briefly exploring some theological developments on synodality between the Second Vatican Council and Pope Francis and some of the contributions of the reforms of Pope Francis to synodality in the Church. Secondly, I will identify how the African palaver functions through examples taken from two African ethnic groups. I will proceed to show how the African palaver could enter into dialogue with other new approaches to participatory dialogue for a synodal Church.

Contributions of the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on Migration

Exchange ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Castillo Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Social

This article searches for contributions provided by the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church to avoid suffering and death under migrants, that, following Pope Francis, are provoked from a ‘culture of rejection’. From an interdisciplinary approach this article facilitates the assessment of mechanisms that generate these situations. It also focuses on the ethical and theological criteria of the Catholic social teaching to achieve a culture of encounter and acceptance of migrants and refugees.

Part II: Transnational Organizations

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-445
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Transnational Relations ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
Made In ◽  
Transnational Actor

Part II focuses on transnational organizations, but the essays themselves are quite diverse. Louis T. Wells, Jr., considers the best known set of transnational organizations, multinational business enterprises, and Peter D. Bell discusses the offspring of one of these enterprises, the Ford Foundation. On the less economic side of transnational relations Ivan Vallier analyzes the Roman Catholic church as a transnational actor, and J. Bowyer Bell explores transnational revolutionary movements. Since these organizations are quite dissimilar, the authors' conclusions cannot be neatly summarized. Many points made in part II refer only to one organization or set of organizations.

The Conflict Between Queen Elizabeth and Roman Catholicism

1947 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry M. Shires
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Political ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mary Tudor ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Made In

During the reign of Mary Tudor, Queen of England from 1553 to 1558, Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the English state; and the English Crown once again recognized the authority of the pope. English Roman Catholics were jubilant while the Protestants believed that all of the gains of the English Reformation had been lost. The religious and even the political future of England was therefore clearly in the hands of Queen Elizabeth when she ascended the throne in 1558. She was subjected to strong pressure from both the Roman Catholics and the Protestants, and for some years the ultimate issue was in doubt. The religious decisions which were made in England during this period were, however, vital for the cause of Protestantism and of extreme significance for Roman Catholicism. Much of the historical writing which describes these crucial events is, naturally enough, the product of Protestant or Roman Catholic apologetic; and the subject is one which has need of calm and reasoned study as well as of ordered presentation.

Broken Traditions: Mexican Revolutionaries and Protestant Allegiances

1983 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Cristero Revolt ◽  
Made In

Scholarly, as well as popular, literature focused on the interaction of the Catholic Church and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 has frequently advanced the contention that the Revolution had “Protestant overtones.” The vagueness of the accusation and its ambiguous implications have thus far eluded clarification. Some of these accusations, particularly those made in the 1920's when memories of the Cristero Revolt were fresh, represent the opinions of the Revolution's detractors and thus their comments have often been dismissed as mudslinging. However, writers of the 1960's in more dispassionate terms have also alluded to this theme. Jean Meyer, for example, includes as a part of his explanation of Cristero dissatisfaction the incompatible juxtaposition of the traditional Roman Catholic Cristero and the Protestant attitude adopted by the revolutionaries. Few investigations have explored the extent or role of non-Catholic religious institutions in Mexico during the revolutionary era. Despite these accusations, systematic research on Protestants has been overshadowed by investigations of Catholics to such an extent that the accuracy and seriousness of accusations of “Protestant overtones” cannot be evaluated.

scholarly journals Wireless Weather Station Using Arduino Mega and Arduino Nano

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
A.C. Gheorghe ◽  
C.I. Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Communication Module ◽  
Made In

Abstract The study aims for the development of a wireless weather station composed of two modules, the outdoor module that takes the temperature and humidity from the environment through the DHT22 sensor and transmits the information through the n24RFL01+ communication module to the indoor module. The indoor module takes the temperature and humidity from the environment and displays it on a 3.5” TFT display along with the information received from the outdoor module, also the date and time are displayed. The development boards used for the weather station are Arduino Mega 2560 for the indoor module and Arduino Nano for the outdoor module. The n24RFL01+ wireless communication module, depending on the model, can transmit data at a distance of 800+ m and the DHT22 sensor is very accurate. The programming code used for the development of the weather station is made in Arduino IDE. Arduino IDE is an open-source software that is used to write and upload code to the Arduino developing boards.

scholarly journals Church’s Response to the Ecological Crisis in a Small Country – the Case of the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Weronika Felcis ◽  
Elgars Felcis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Current Response ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Church

Due to historical and contextual factors explained in this article, the Latvian Roman Catholic Church currently does not play any significant role in environmental protection or ecological crisis awareness building in the country. However, being called by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato si’, recently more of the reflection was given to the call for ecological conversion. Considering Church resources based on publicly available data, the authors describe the limitations and opportunities to strengthen the Church current response to the ecological crisis.

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