Pope Benedict XVI is now present on Twitter. The high ranking
clergy and leader of the Catholic church worldwide has joined other world
leaders to embrace the social media platform as a means of reaching to the
people.
But wait a little.
You still can't get His Holiness twitter account until Monday, December 3, 2012 when it will be formally launched, according to the Vatican Information Service (VIS), the official media communication platform of the Vatican city.
According to the
agency, the press conference to herald the launch will hold in the Holy See
Press Office, with the participation of Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli,
president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Msgr. Paul
Tighe, secretary of the same dicastery, Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of
the Holy See Press Office, Professor Gian Maria Vian, editor of “L'Osservatore
Romano”, and Greg Burke, Media Advisor to the Secretariat of State.But wait a little.
You still can't get His Holiness twitter account until Monday, December 3, 2012 when it will be formally launched, according to the Vatican Information Service (VIS), the official media communication platform of the Vatican city.
The Pope has already used the 140 character “tweet” format when, in June 2011, he launched the Vatican information portal www.news.va., with the words: “Dear friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”.
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