Continuing the trend of an Internet-savvy Vatican…
News of this arrived in my inbox yesterday afternoon.
It appears that in response to the (43rd) World Day for Social Communications, the Vatican has launched a new online initiative: pope2you.net.
…Be sure to announce the Gospel to your contemporaries with enthusiasm. You know their fears and their hopes, their aspirations and their disappointments: the greatest gift you can give to them is to share with them the “Good News” of a God who became man, who suffered, died and rose again to save all people. Human hearts are yearning for a world where love endures, where gifts are shared, where unity is built, where freedom finds meaning in truth, and where identity is found in respectful communion. Our faith can respond to these expectations: may you become its heralds! The Pope accompanies you with his prayers and his blessing…
This builds off of Pope Benedict XVI’s recent call for internet Catholic evangelists, and presents a fairly comprehensive set of web-savvy features and functions, including:
- a Facebook application
- a wiki-based Papal message
- the Vatican YouTube channel, which we previously knew about
- and H2onews, an iPhone/iPod Touch video news application
And yes, I’ve already downloaded the news application. It’s actually pretty slick, with a lot of thought put into its design.
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