Pope: 'Thou Shalt Blog'

The most media and tech-savvy Pope in history has a message for priests of the 21st century: Go forth and blog. 

Pope Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: Go forth and blog.

The pope, whose own presence on the Web has heavily grown in recent years, urged priests on Saturday to use all multimedia tools at their disposal to preach the Gospel and engage in dialogue with people of other religions and cultures.

This is just the latest development in the Catholic church embracing the internet and social media. In May 2009 it launched a new website, Pope2you.net,  that integrates the church's Facebook application, iPhone app, and YouTube channel. Just this month the Vatican also joined Twitter.
image credit: Pope and iPhone by ~JackieTran