Pope to go on Facebook as Vatican embraces online technology
The initiative, which follows the earlier creation of a YouTube channel for the Pontiff, will also involve iPhone applications and a new Vatican website, www.pope2you.net, which is scheduled to go live on the Catholic Church's World Communications day on May 24.
The Church wants to emulate US President Barack Obama's use of the internet, both during his election campaign and since he took office.
The strategy was outlined by the Jesuit priest Father Federico Lombardi, long-standing head of Vatican Radio, who also took over running the Holy See press office on the election of Pope Benedict XVI....
Dr. Alan Cairns | 8/3/2009
