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For hundreds of years, St. Peter’s Basilica has been adorned by mosaics – millions of tiny colored tiles melted and fashioned into astonishing art. Correspondent Chris Livesay visits the Vatican’s Mosaic Studio, where mosaicists – using tools and techniques dating back centuries – employ fire to create divine works. Source link

The Vatican’s trials and tribulations

Early next month, the trial resumes of Cardinal Angelo Becciu and nine others charged with a number of serious irregularities relating to Vatican finances – embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office. Cardinal Becciu is the most prominent, being not only a former close associate of the pope, but the cardinal responsible for the advancement of canonisation causes; the others include…

The Vatican’s trials: Pell’s Redemption

A couple of weeks ago, as the trial of Cardinal Becciu for corruption was announced in the Vatican, my parish priest made an announcement about the Peter’s Pence collection at the church door: it was all for the charitable work of the Holy See, he said; it all went on the Pope’s good works, none on administration. We nodded amiably – who doesn’t like Peter’s Pence? – and most people gave more…

VHacks: Inside the Vatican’s First-Ever Hackathon

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This past weekend, as tourists milled around St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest sites in the world, snapping selfies and experiencing Michelangelo’s art through their phone’s camera lens, 120 students sat in a 500-year-old palazzo a few hundred meters away, coding for 36 hours straight at the Vatican’s first-ever hackathon. This, it would seem, is the Holy See of the 21st century.