“An interesting message out of the Vatican this weekend (delivered over Pope Benedict XVI’s YouTube channel, no less. Who knew the Pope even had his own YouTube channel). Essentially, Benedict gave a message urging priests to blog, tweet, use Facebook, and otherwise harness the power of online communications for the kingdom of God.
“Responding adequately to this challenge amid today’s cultural shifts, to which young people are especially sensitive, necessarily involves using new communications technologies,” he said. ‘The world of digital communication, with its almost limitless expressive capacity, makes us appreciate all the more Saint Paul’s exclamation: ‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel’”
Read more at the Washington Post (thanks, Tiram)
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I wonder if God’s caught up with all this technology..? Or is he still using the old burning bush/writing on the wall business?
Little do they know religious fruitcakes have been preaching the word of God on the net for years.
And the Internet, in all its glory, chews them up and spits them back out again.
The internet is not a kind place, it is not a forgiving place. Priests will be shot on sight.
Sigh . . . . . . . grimace. . . . . . . and sigh again.
that’s the wrong pope.
or was that a test to see how many people that read this blog know what the pope looks like?
Uh oh. As if there wasn’t enough preaching in the world. I don’t want religious zealotry to take over the internet.
Isn’t the picture used Pope John Paul?
*sigh* the pope just keeps trying so hard to be relevant…
Oh yes
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‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel’”
Lol, fuck off!
Aaaaand up goes employment for under-cover paedophilia investigators…
Awesome, can I join the daily email list so each morning I can be told; you are a sinner and you will burn in hell if you don’t repent nowwwww! I think that may just put my working life into perspective.
The Pope has a YouTube channel…….??? Err, sorry my mind sort of drifted into another reality there for a sec….
Soon my Dad (who is very religious) won’t need to go to church every Sunday for his service, it’ll be sent to him via an email or fax……
LC x
I just read a Time Magazine article about the Pope’s struggles with Father Cutie. The article began, “It’s hard out there for a pope these days.”
If Time Magazine begins a story on Catholicism with a Three 6 Mafia reference to pimps, it’s obvious the Catholics have lost the game.
As Marina Hyde said in the Guardian, “The internet has done for Scientology. Could it rumble the Christians, too?” I think the answer is clear. Just check the Pope Benedict/Lord Sith meme winging its way around the interbutz.
John Paul looks a lot friendlier than Ratty, maybe that’s why Abeo decided to use that photie?
That photo is of JP2 (The Pole) and not Joseph (Bennie the Nazi) Ratzinger
Who says religion is out of date? The Pope’s rocking YouTube, man! (How long before Satan tempts someone to upload a video of him in the bath?
) There are solar powered Bibles now! Russell Howard did a rap for the G man on MTW! Vegas priests wear shades! Nah, the God Squad is well 21st century……..Dude.
How can he (which ever pope he is) hold that grotesque figure in his hand. Monty Python showed many at deaths door on crosses and if I held up any one of the others I would be considered sick and twisted. Wonder if the pope is for or against the American family godhates99.99%ofhomosapiens.com.
Oh religion. You never cease to make me L.O.L. all over my desk. Maybe they’ll learn something about their “faith” in the mean time.
I got God on Facebook :O
POPE is right always we have to look in to the positiveness not to the wrong but pepole mind is to look first to the negative ness but god will forgive