Vatican embraces social networking, text messaging for Il Papa
- May 7th, 2008
- 5 Comments
For World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, the Vatican is going high tech. It will be setting up a social networking site much like a Catholic Facebook where people can sign up to get prayers online and text messages from the Pope.
Wait, I can get a text message from the Pope!? I’m not even Catholic but that sounds so awesome! Think he’ll use texting shorthand? Like for the Lord’s Prayer?
to: god n hvn: u r kool. we want kool & 4 earth 2b like hvn. giv us food 2day & 4giv r sinz like we 4giv sinz. lol! save r souls, cuz we kno u r tight, u r strong & u r kool 4evs. werd.
I hope not, but still, I’m going to sign up. I got a text from Ron Jeremy once, but this would be cooler.









josh bomb (Who am I?)
3 months ago
i really cannot wait to get a Facepope account.
quacky (Who am I?)
3 months ago
I really cannot wait to SuperPoke the pope.
Matt Hickey (Who am I?)
3 months ago
“The Pope has bought you 1 drink! Would you like to buy the Pope a drink?”
Gill Avila (Who am I?)
3 months ago
It’s Emperor Palpatine.
David Webb (Who am I?)
2 months ago
It’s called XT3, and no, you can’t send the pope a drink! :) There is an “ask a priest” feature though. It actually looks quite good, it’s not so much trying to mimic Facebook as create an environment for youth to share their faith.
http://www.xt3.com