Robert Accettura wrote in about this story about a Boston Cardinal starting a Vatican blog. Here’s the blog. As a Catholic, I find this trend toward transparency pretty fascinating. How long before the Pope has a blog?
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Robert Accettura wrote in about this story about a Boston Cardinal starting a Vatican blog. Here’s the blog. As a Catholic, I find this trend toward transparency pretty fascinating. How long before the Pope has a blog?
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I doubt that if the Pope had a blog that it would increase transparency. Would he even be the one to write it?
Not long, I think. I’m not sure if Pope Benedict will get there, but I think the whole idea of blogging is finding a lot of new uses, including in the Church.
If I may paraphrase Fred Schneider, “You’re what?!“
It’s interesting to see who uses WordPress now.
Strikes me as a bit odd though, if it’s a Vatican blog, why the url doesn’t use the .va as the TLD.
I predict a couple of months. I can see it now, Ratz using tKubrick with the title “PopeBlog” with the tagline “My blog is holier than your blog!”
I blogged about it since September 23rd but it seems nobody is reading my blog !!! 🙁
Oh well, on the subject now, church, seems to have caught with the (not so) new wordpress blogging madness.
So whats next ?
Online confession ?
Isnt that what a personal blog is all about ?
[…] Qualche giorno fa Matt raccontava di essere venuto a conoscenza del blog di un cardinale americano. Si tratta di Seán Patrick O’Malley, arcivescovo di Boston. Il blog è carino, ricco di foto e piuttosto curato nella grafica. […]