Breaking news from the Vatican today. The Roman Catholic Church is hosting a four-day symposium for its bishops and others on how it intends to use the Internet--including social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter--to tell its story. You can read the story here. The article states that executives from Facebook and Twitter are showing how the Catholic Church can use their communication's tools to reach a younger audience.
What this proves to me is that the more things change, the more they stay the same when it comes to the church. Much like how the Vatican reacted to the moveable printing press of Gutenberg ("You mean, everyone can read Bible now?"), Catholic Church officials have been very slow in adapting to changing communications technologies. The story also mentions how Pope Ratzinger... err, Benedict... got caught with egg on his face when he re-instated a Cardinal who, it turns out, believes the Holocaust didn't happen. A simple Google search would have turned up this information, the article points out, but apparently no one either did that search... or knew how.
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