Pope Benedict XVI to launch YouTube Channel
January 22, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
VATICAN CITY–The Vatican will publish a report on Friday detailing the launch of Pope Benedict XVI’s own dedicated channel on YouTube, the Osservatore Romano newspaper said.
The deal with search engine giant Google, which owns the video sharing website, aims to “secure the Pope’s presence on the web,” the Vatican paper said Thursday, adding that Benedict has always had been “fond of new technologies.”
The report will be published when the German-born pontiff will officially launch his YouTube channel.
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of the Vatican’s communications department, told the paper the pope hopes to reach out to “the digital generation.” [source]
The Pope on YouTube should be an exciting experience for Catholics around the world. Having the successor of St. Peter on your screen regularly helps keep the “flock” together. I do wish that the Pope’s engagement would be a more “informal” one than something you could have watched on television. I’d love it if he really talked to Catholics, and not have too much production value to it.
