CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Vatican Radio presented Tuesday its digital archive of \u201cThe Voice of the Popes,\u201d a collection of more than 8,000 audio recordings of every Pope since Pius XI which makes their message more easily accessible.<\/p>\n\t\u201cThis is moving; this initiative of Vatican Radio has made me very happy that we can listen to their discourses,\u201d said Cardinal Giovanni Re, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, in an interview with CNA following the April 1 presentation.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt's beautiful that these Popes remain among us with their voice, though the most important thing is that they are in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIn addition to Cardinal Re, the launch launch was participated in by Guido Gusso, butler to Bl. John XXIII; Gianfranco Svidercoschi, Vaticanista; Sandro Piervenanzi, technical director of Vatican Radio; and Fr. Federico Lombardi, Holy See press officer.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cOur oldest recording was made on a dictaphone, and dates to 1884,\u201d Piervenanzi told CNA. \u201cIt is a recording of Leo XIII, and was not made by Vatican Radio, but was a gift from Catholics in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tLeo XIII is heard reading his encyclical \u201cHumanum Genus,\u201d on freemasonry. Piervenanzi discussed the recording, made on a wax cylinder, in the context of the challenges facing Vatican Radio in digitizing such recordings.<\/p>\n
\tVatican Radio was founded in 1931, and establishes, protecting, and manages the archive of papal pronouncements so as to safeguard them and to protect the Holy See's intellectual property.<\/p>\n
\tThe digitization allows a more widespread diffusion of the Popes' speech; prior to this, few but employees of Vatican Radio were able to hear all the recordings. The archives are open to the public in a limited way, but can be accessed for historical publications or as the object of study.<\/p>\n
\tThe archive has documented more than 23,000 events, and the digital archive is formed of more than 37,000 distinct files. That the archive might be published in the future on the internet has not be excluded.<\/p>\n
\tFr. Lombardi emphasized the importance of the archive, noting in particular Bl. John XXIII's \u201cspeech to the moon,\u201d an impromptu discourse from the balcony of the Apostolic Palace to crowds in St. Peter's Square on the opening of the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWhen the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council was celebrated, journalists search for its transcription on the Vatican web-site, but could find only L'Osservatore Romano's synthesis,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n
\tAt the time, the Pope's words \u201cwere not customarily transcribed in their entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe searched for the original in the Vatican Radio archives, transcribed it, and published it,\u201d he said. The full speech is now available in Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish on the Vatican's website.<\/p>\n
\tFr. Lombardi also praised the work of Italian journalist Angela Ambrogetti, who has published two works \u2013 \u201cCompanions in Travel\u201d and \u201cIn the Air with Pope Benedict\u201d \u2013 with Libreria Editrice Vaticana on the news conferences held by Bl. John Paul II and Benedict XVI during their international flights, for which she used the Vatican Radio archives.<\/p>\n
\tThe press officer announced that Ambrogetti is now working on a third work utilizing the archives \u2013 this time on Bl. John Paul II's conversations at lunch.
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\n\tIn 2011, when \u201cCompanions in Travel\u201d was published, transcriptions of Bl. John Paul II's conferences on his flights were not provided.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI wanted to render the atmosphere of that era,\u201d Ambrogetti told CNA March 31. When he presented the book, Cardinal Roberto Tucci, a one-time director of Vatican Radio, said of the archive: \u201cwe had a treasure, but were not even aware of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe custom of new conferences held on papal flights began in 1979, with Bl. John Paul II's trip to Mexico.<\/p>\n
\tWhen he went to greet the journalists, Wilton Wynn of \u201cTime\u201d asked if he intended to visit the U.S. The Pope responded, and journalists have since been able to question the Pope on his international flights.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWynn's question gave rise to a new journalistic era,\u201d Ambrogetti underscored.<\/p>\n
\tShe noted that the archives show each Pope as he is: \u201cJohn Paul II used to speak about human rights, social justice, the presence of the Church in the world\u2026 themes that are the natural outcome of the announcement of the Gospel, even if the outcome seemed more newsworthy than the motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBenedict XVI, she reflected, \u201cexplained once again to the world the reason why the Catholic Church speaks about human rights, peace, and social justice,\u201d even if \u201cthe media did not seem ready to address these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
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