Posts Tagged ‘2025 Jubilee Year of Hope’

Vatican and Microsoft use AI to bring St Peter’s to the world

Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Microsoft

In a groundbreaking collaboration, the Vatican and Microsoft have partnered to create a digital replica of St Peter’s Basilica, offering an immersive online and in-person experience. Using advanced AI and photogrammetry, this project will provide millions of people throughout the world a virtual gateway to one of Catholicism’s holiest sites. The launch coincides with preparations Read more

Pope Francis to release ‘first memoir published by a sitting pontiff’

Monday, October 21st, 2024

In January 2025, Pope Francis will become the first sitting pontiff to publish an autobiographical memoir titled “Hope.” Random House Publishing announced the memoir’s unprecedented global release on Wednesday. According to the publisher, the original plan was to release it after his death. However, the pope decided to publish it in light of the upcoming Read more