09 June 2016, The Tablet

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Does anyone have any questions?
Have you ever wanted to know what the Pope eats for breakfast? Now you can ask him yourself, thanks to a new website that aims to build a dialogue between the social-media generation and Francis.

Last week, after the conclusion of its World Congress, Scholas Occurrentes, a Pontifical Foundation that works to develop experiences of encounter and citizenship in each continent, launched the website askpopefrancis.scholasoccurrentes.org.

Developed by the start-up company eFanswer, it has been supported by celebrities such as Salma Hayek, George Clooney and Richard Gere, who all took part in the informal congress in the Vatican Synod Hall
last week and are active members of Scholas Occurrentes.

The Vatican has clarified that #askpopefrancis is not exclusively for young Catholics, but is open to young people from all over the world. Francis will answer all the questions in a book, to be published by the Milan-based publishing house Mondadori in five languages: Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

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