Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The troves of knowledge stored in archives and libraries must be made available and accessible to all people, especially as they increasingly depend on technological means for their knowledge, Pope Francis said. Scholars overseeing archives and managing libraries must have “a great openness to discussion and dialogue,” Pope Francis […]
With papal decree, Vatican Archives no longer ‘secret’
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, Pope Francis has changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives. In a decree, issued “motu proprio,” on the pope’s own initiative, and published by the Vatican Oct. 28, the pope […]
A history as old as Catholic Hawaii
The Kaimuki archives of the Sacred Hearts fathers and brothers has many tales to tell By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald On his weekly volunteer day at the archives of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Kaimuki, Sacred Hearts Father Ed Popish climbs the stairs to the second-floor of St. […]