| April 4, 2005 | Will Our Next Pope Be a Blogger? |
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This ABC News piece describes how Pope John Paul II used his media-savvy to become a global superstar. (He released a music video, featuring him singing and reciting psalms and the Gospels. He also recorded the rosary.) It's also interesting to note that he became pope in 1978, the same year that instant global television became available. An AP news article published on Yahoo! News today explains the difficult process of determining the next pope, there's an aside mentioning the Internet and how it may affect the selection of the new pope: ...And there's another source of information that wasn't around in 1978 -- the Internet. A cardinal's every utterance is now stored there, if his fellow churchmen are curious. That could also make or break some of the "papabile," as potential candidates are known in Italian. I wonder if it would be possible to have an Internet-savvy pope. Do the cardinals ever go online? Could we ever have a pope who had his own blog? Labels: blog, blogger, media, news, pope posted by Jess Barron @ 11:35 AM 
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