Vatican launches iPhone, Facebook?

I was just surfing my usual dailies and decided to take a walk outside the park and stumbled into this. The headlines caught my attention, "Vatican launches iPhone and Facebook applications" and so; in May 2009? Why was I not in the loop? Whoa, and here I thought I was spending too much time in Facebook. Even The Pope was spending time in Facebook with his Fb application, "The Pope Meets You on Facebook". You can even send virtual postcards to your friends with messages and speeches of The Pope embedded. Amazing! Here's the link.

I feel proud that our Catholic Church recognizes the power of social media in the digital world and is encouraging the people to evangelize and spread the Gospel online!

Pope Benedict says,

Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world! Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God’s infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!

So let's harness this technology to its fullest potential and share our faith in cyberspace!

2009Full text of Pope Benedict XVI's Message to Mark the 42nd World Day for Communications. Click here.

To Blog or Not To Blog?

"The special challenge before you, is to find ways to ensure that the voice of the Church is not marginalized or silenced in the modern arena of the media. You have a role to play in ensuring that the Gospel is not confined to a strictly private world. No! Jesus Christ must be proclaimed to the whole world; and therefore the Church must enter the great forum of the media with courage and confidence."

-Pope John Paul II-

(quoted from Shouts in the Piazza Blog)