Slowed by an inheritance of Bush technological ineptitude, the Obama administration may reflect wistfully from time to time on the Catholic Church's YouTube channel.
Retro until almost the apotheosis of retro, the Vatican site describes its YouTube channel:
This channel offers news coverage of the main
activities of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI and of relevant Vatican events.
It is updated daily.
Video images are produced by Centro Televisio Vaticano (CTV), texts by Vatican Radio (RV) and CTV.
This video-news presents the Catholic Churchs position regarding the principal issues of the world today.
Links give access to the full and official texts of cited documents.
Pope Benedict XVI plans to get his views out regularly via YouTube.
This should not leave you with the impression that the Vatican is new to new media. Reuters reports the Vatican has had a Web site since 1995.
The next step is obvious, then. Inspired by the example of scribes of a bygone era and perhaps piqued a little by the success a very Protestant Obama is having at it, blessed by an organization that knows how to manage Web sites and connectivity, when will His Excellency begin to blog?
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