Tag: POPE

Make up your mind, Pope Benedict XVI. First, you roll out your own YouTube channel and Pope2you online initiative, and call upon your priestly underlings to colonize the blogosphere. Then, you turn around and declare that the Internet's poisoning our feeble, sin-prone minds. And now, you've taken the wind out of our Web-surfing sails, once again. On Saturday, during a Vatican conference on ...

Need to conduct Mass? Starting in July, there's an app for that. According to the AP, an Italian priest has created an iPad application that contains the entire missal -- the text used to conduct Mass throughout the liturgical year. The Reverend Paolo Padrini's unnamed free app will launch next month in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin. Two years ago, Padrini developed the iPhone app, ...

We bet the priest who cooked up the Vatican's new text-the-Pope program fancies himself a Father Fonzie, of sorts. He knows the kids -- what they "dig" and what "bums them out." The former? Texting. And the latter? Pedophilia. In response to the recent resignation of a German bishop, who has admitted to beating orphans and is facing accusations of pedophilia, the Catholic Church is offering its ...

Pope Benedict XVI (who loves the Internet, but is wishy-washy when it comes to abuse allegations) says that we need to be more critical of the information we get from the Web. The Pontiff recently said at the Italian Bishops' Conference that Net surfers ought to be wary of the "dangers of conformity, of control, of moral and intellectual relativism, which can already be recognized in the decline ...

Take it from us: surviving in the blog-o-sphere ain't easy. With the seemingly infinite number of online magazines and voices screaming for attention, it truly is a blog-eat-blog world. And now it looks like the streets are getting even rougher and tougher, thanks to a new fat cat on the blogging block: God Almighty. In a message previewing the theme of this May's "World Communications Day," ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Call it BlackBerry Friday. Beginning today, all AT&T BlackBerrys with a two-year contract will be 50-percent off after a mail-in-rebate. [From: Techland] According to a MySpace page where celebrities reveal what's on their iPods, the Pope likes to get down with some Tupac, specifically the track "Changes." Can we now expect a ...

While many remember Super Bowl XLIII as a frantic and impressive give-and-take battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, others remember something else -- porn. Viewers watching the game on an NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona got more than they bargained for when the station accidentally mixed in about 30 seconds of hardcore pornography during the fourth quarter. Now, ...

Good ol' Ratzinger is doing his best to make sure that the Catholic Church doesn't get left in the technological dust. After embracing YouTube, the Pope has issued a statement giving his blessing (however cautiously) to Facebook, MySpace, and social networking sites in general. Pope Benedict issued a statement on Friday, for the World Day of Communications, welcoming the "gift" of technology and ...

Eager to prove that they're not a bunch of technophobes (we didn't forget that whole cell phones will steal your soul thing), Vatican leaders are planning to launch the Holy See's own YouTube channel. Official details will be revealed during a press conference Friday, but it's pretty easy to figure out what to expect. The Vatican Television Center and Vatican Radio are working with Google to ...

Let's not beat around the bush here, the Catholic Church has always been a pretty big fan of blaming the downfall of man on popular culture and entertainment. And like the sound of AC/DC, somethings never change. The Pope is finding himself a little conflicted over cell phones. The same Vatican that started showering young churchgoers with text messages is now faulting mobile phones (and of ...

Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer walls" have been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse in Australia, where ...

When the Pope arrived on our shores last month, much of the nation was subject to the pomp and fanfare that surrounded his every move. Now the Pope is making a trip Down Under for Sydney's World Youth Day next month, and those who can't watch him live (or online) will be able to follow the Pontiff via SMS. The Pope (or one of his lackeys) will be sending "daily messages of inspiration" to the ...

Well Pope Benedict XIV (he'll always be Ratzinger to us) is here (as in, the United States), and, more specifically, in New York City. Now, some of you might be wondering... how can I get my Pope fix 24/7 while the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is here in the Big Apple? Luckily, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's Prayer Channel has you covered with its WatchThePope.com Web ...