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Often when the news media says that the pope has endorsed something, they're actually talking about a Vatican spokesperson or one of its departments, or a menti
by jawns 3y ago
Often when the news media says that the pope has endorsed something, they're actually talking about a Vatican spokesperson or one of its departments, or a mention in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Because the Register article doesn't make it clear whether Pope Francis himself or a representative of the Vatican gave an endorsement, I started looking up information in other sources.
But in practically every article I could find that mentioned Miron Mironiuk and "Code With Pope," the information about the papal endorsement came from Mironiuk.
For example, this article from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67209806 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67209806
I could not find any articles that directly quote a Vatican source, or the pope himself, as endorsing this project.
So until I can find some kind of credible source beyond Mironiuk's say-so, I am going to assume that he got some sort of recognition or general note of encouragement from someone in the Vatican. But it's doubtful that Pope Francis himself is partnering with this one app developer.
- xattt 3y agoThis didn’t click until now. Likewise, any decisions made by a Canadian federal or provincial department are, by law, made by the responsible minister. In (obvious) reality, this is would be a decision made a lower level employee that has delegated signing authority to make it work within the framework of the law.
- vivekd 3y agoI'm glad you caught that because as a Catholic this has been a source of tremendous annoyance to me - the pope must be one of the most misquoted people in the modern era. So much so that I routinely just ignore "pope says" type articles. If course even if he did say that it doesn't touch on morals or dogma so it's just a guy voicing his personal opinion. It would just be weird for him to voice it using his religious platform. That said it is likely that some group in the Vatican has started a teach kids to code program under their charity wing. As to how effective such programs are - I'm skeptical. There are already lots of great python resources online - is this going to be geared towards Catholic kids and parents to help that niche get interested in code?
- salad-tycoon 3y agoFellow Catholic here, it’s interesting that Jorge Bergolio has chosen to endorse a computer programming language named after a serpent. I hope they won’t be using any Apple products for this project otherwise , truly, the prophetic forerunner of the antichrist and the end times have arrived. Joke (maybe?).
- xkekjrktllss 3y agoGood joke, definitely.
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- tremorscript 3y agoNever miss an opportunity to be a kill joke!!! Python was named after Monty Python the British comedy group. If you have not watched them, I highly recommend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#...
- jowea 3y ago> If course even if he did say that it doesn't touch on morals or dogma so it's just a guy voicing his personal opinion. It would just be weird for him to voice it using his religious platform. I find that hard to accept. He is the Pope. It's like thinking a country's president saying something that isn't directly political is just voicing his opinion as a private citizen.
- defrost 3y agoI doubt a single Australian thought the then Prime Minister Bob Hawke was making a political statement, proposing a new national holiday, or doing anything other than voicing an opinion as a private citizen when he celebrated the Australian win against the USofA in the America's Cup Race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mdHO2_Zo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mdHO2_Zo8