25 January 2010 ~ View Comments

Blogging Priests

Pope Benedict XVI needs to be proclaimed as a poster boy for propagating social media. In his latest statement released by the Vatican, he urges his priests to use new media to  evangelise the word of god. An excerpt:

Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites) which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.

With an iPhone and Facebook application, and Vatican’s own YouTube channel; I’m just awaiting his check-in to Foursquare.

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