Wojtek
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> What percentage of Roman Catholics speak non-European languages?
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> Carrol
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> latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-pope-twitter-lent-20120222,0,656177
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> latimes.com
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> Pope to tweet one message a day for 40 days of #Lent
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> 5:22 PM PST, February 22, 2012
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> Hey there, media savvy generation -- as we enter the Lenten season,
> Pope Benedict XVI would like your attention, and he and the
> Pontifical Council for Social Communications think they know just how
> to get it: with one Papal tweet a day throughout the 40 days of Lent.
>
> After all, as Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council
> for Social Communications points out, "many of the key Gospel ideas
> are readily rendered in just 140 characters."
>
> Anybody can sign up to follow the pope, whose papal message will be
> tweeted in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and soon in
> Portuguese via @Pope2YouVatican, but this effort was conceived to
> bring the unfaithful back to the fold.
>
> The Vatican is hoping that by putting snippets of the pope's message
> up on Twitter, it will be retweeted and retweeted, making its way
> throughout the Twittersphere and possibly having an impact on someone
> who has given up on religion or who at any rate has given up on Lent.
>
> "It's an experiment also for us to see how it goes, to see what level
> of impact it has," Tighe said in an interview with Vatican Radio's
> Phillippa Hitchen. "It's something dynamic and different."
>
> Here's the first tweet of the project: Pope2YouVatican: "Let us be
> concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works"
> (Heb 10:24) #Lent #Pope2You
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> Tighe said that the papal tweeting will probably extend beyond Lent.
> He told Hitchen that the Church sees Twitter as a potentially useful
> channel to allow for more direct and immediate ways of sharing the
> essence of the pope's thoughts on all kinds of important Catholic occasions.
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