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Following hot on the heels of other such famous figures as David Cameron and Chris Brown, Pope Benedict XVI is bringing the holy presence to bear on Twitter, preparing to send down nuggets of heavenly wisdom in a more digestible format.
Though His Holiness hasn’t actually deigned to put finger to keyboard yet and start racking up those re-tweets, he already has 350,000 followers, showing that maybe all you really need to be popular is a funny hat and a big house in Italy. According to the Vatican spokesperson, the Pope won’t actually be writing the tweets himself (lest he get tempted by the satanical ways of social media), but they will be approved by the great man himself. If you want to converse with the Pope on Twitter (and face it, it’s probably the closest a lot of us are going to get to God), he’ll apparently be holding a weekly Q&A session with the hashtag #askpontifex.
Also, the Vatican are saying that whilst the heavenly tweets won’t be infalliable, they will be a part of the Church’s fallible ordinary magisterium — basically, they will make up part of the Church’s teaching doctrine. In other words, in a hundred years, your Sunday service might have some readings from The Great Book of Twitter. Bring it on. [Gawker]
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or… easy steps to buggery!
This would be the ultimate account to hack:
“Psst, I am actually an atheist! #youcanthandlethetruth”
As you speak, anyone who’s ever done anything for Anonymous is trying to do exactly that
I bet his password is something simple and obvious like “Fiat Lux” or “Diligo Deum”.
Or just “Amen”
The Pope is not a man in a funny hat with a big house in Italy. He is “supposedly” one of the most important and holy person of Roman Catholicism. It’s not nice to not give him the respect that he deserves.
I’m not a Catholic.
The Pope is the head of an organisation with a history of torture, murder and sexual abuse. If we gave him and his organisation the respect it deserved we would be outside the Vatican with torches and pitchforks.
agreed with bells on, the ‘Church’ is nothing more than the remnants of the Roman Empire and has more similarities with the Mafioso than any religious organisation should have.
So he is directly responsible for the past actions of the institution to which he belongs? Does this apply to every organisation and insitution?
Yes, but the Pope’s supposed to be infallible, unlike every other organisation and institution ever created. That’s got to set you up for a fall if nothing else does!
It certainly should apply to an organisation that claims to be the official spokesman for the creator of the universe. While he was not responsible for crimes committed before his time he certainly should apologise and co-operate with investigations into them.
Have you seen this? I think this sums up your point adequately Darrell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0
(let Tim get into it, the lyrics post-intro are spectacular!)
Yep, that covers it.
So you feel the same way about the Queen?
Plus he shouldn’t apologise. The people who perpertrated the crimes should but most are dead, and those that have been found guilty are in jail. No institution or anyone in that institution should ever apologise for something that happened in the past. It is stupid.
And in the present? When victims and in some cases their molesters are still alive?
Prosecute them. Why should anyone have to apologise for the actions of someone else?
Because he is the head of an organisation who’s members perpetrated such terrible acts. Not to mention the constant denial and failure to truly apologise, whilst there is still scandal after scandal being reported ( gay prostitute ring in the vatican anyone? ).
For a mortal authority this would be true, but the pope is claimed to be infallible, which literally means he can do no wrong, this includes everything he does as head of the church, which HAS included shielding criminals from the law. Either he has to clean up the church or renounce the doctrine of papal infallibly.
Lame argument!
It was actually two questions not an argument. And going by that logic, every government should be torn down and every instiution and company that has existed for more than 100 years because at some point, they all would’ve have been involved in something that harmed, injured or killed someone.
It’s almost as if you’re accusing him of doing those things. If anything like that does/did happen then I have a feeling he was “shielded or unaware” of it. His “handlers” would have taken care of that.
The current pope DID try to shield the previous pope and cover up for him when accusations of abuse were levelled at the catholic church. Or have you forgotten that?
Actually I don’t recall that. That’s all
Those two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Who says you can’t be important AND have a funny hat?
Ok maybe you can be important and have a funny hat.
Chillax dude and watch “The Pope Must Die”. Great film!
Dudeeee…I couldn’t be more chillaxed even if I wanted to. But I won’t be watching that movie. Thank You.
Didn’t he already have Twitter? I could have sworn the maniac had that godawful @pope2you username set up already…
Great news! Now I can ask him why he lied about secularism and 1930′s Germany when he came to the UK.
Paypal knowledge? Didn’t realise he was an expert!