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Pope Benedict XVI has been encouraging his fellow priests to use all sorts of social media tools to help spread the gospel across the web. The Pope already has a YouTube channel, as well as Facebook and iPhone apps, but the Pope wants his crew to launch a website/blog and use newer tools to communicate.

“The spread of multimedia communications and its rich ‘menu of options’ might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on the Web, or to see it only as a space to be filled. Yet priests can rightly be expected to be present in the world of digital communications as faithful witnesses to the Gospel, exercising their proper role as leaders of communities which increasingly express themselves with the different ‘voices’ provided by the digital marketplace. 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.”

This obviously comes at no surprise, and the Pope especially wants to reach the younger crowd to share the word with.

via [Yahoo News]