Radio Vaticana at 90: Keeping up with the times, never forgetting who we are
By Linda Bordoni Pope Pius XI’s wish to invest in a radio station that would bring the voice of the Pope and the Gospel message to every corner of the earth goes back to the 1920s. So he asked the Italian inventor and electrical engineer, Guglielmo Marconi, to help him set up the enterprise. Thus, Vatican Radio was inaugurated on 12 February 1931 and entrusted to the Jesuit Order. Eight pontiffs later, the Pope is Francis, and it is with his voice we celebrate the Radio’s 90th anniversary in 2021. Today we bring you the voice and the insights of the man who embodied Vatican Radio’s Engl...
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