And now, a reading from an email according to St. Paul


Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer on Epiphany amid the coronavirus disease COVID-19  outbreak at the Vatican January 6 2021. Vatican MediashyHandout via REUTERSFiles

Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer on Epiphany, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Vatican, January 6, 2021. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS/Files

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - If he were alive today, even St. Paul would be texting, Tweeting and firing off emails to get the news out, Pope Francis said on Saturday in his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Social Communication.

St. Paul, who lived in the first century of the Christian era, spread the new faith into Europe and Asia Minor and is believed to have written a great part of the New Testament.

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