Pope Francis Meets Apple CEO Tim Cook

October 3, 2022236 views0

Pope Francis Meets Apple CEO Tim Cook

2022-10-03T14:47:19+01:00

By Church News

Though what was discussed has not been disclosed, Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Vatican on Monday morning.Cook heads up a company whose stock market value hit $3 trillion in June. He spoke privately with Pope Francis on Oct. 3, the eve of the feast day of the pope’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi known for embracing radical poverty.The technology executive has been in Italy since Sept. 28. He first travelled to Naples, where he launched the first Apple Developer Academy in Europe and received an honorary degree from the University of Naples Federico II.In 2016, Cook met the Pope at the Vatican during a 15-minute interaction. The meeting had taken place a week after the Pope had met Google’s parent Alphabet’s executive Eric Schmidt.Although Pope Francis patiently allows people to take selfies with him, he has a mixed relationship with cell phones.Last year, he interrupted his general audience when an aide passed him a cell phone and took an urgent call from a senior Vatican official.“Free yourself from the addiction to mobile phones,” he told young people in 2019. “When you become a slave to your mobile phone, you lose your freedom.”“We have to get back to communicate with our families”, he had further added.On other occasions, he has said it was sad that people use their cellphones at the dinner table or while attending Mass.In 2017, he chastised the Catholics for using mobile phones during Mass.Pope Francis had also said that the priests during the mass tell the people to lift up their hearts, “He does not say, Lift up your cell phones to take pictures.”ALSO READ Pope Celebrates Mass in North America’s Oldest Catholic Sanctuary