It took Chris Juby, the Director of Worship at King’s Church in Durham, England exactly three years and three months to summarise the entire Bible into 1,189 tweets. He, says that he won’t be tweeting from @biblesummary any longer. There were times during Juby’s Twitter journey through the Bible when he didn’t know if he would make Read more
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Papal reform appointment in tweeting trouble
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Another controversy has broken out in Italy over one of Pope Francis’s appointments — this time laywoman Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a member of the new papal reform commission to study the Vatican’s economic and administrative structures. The 30-year-old Catholic, of Italian-Egyptian parentage, is a communications expert employed as a management consultant by multinational Ernst & Read more
Indulgences for WYD — even through Twitter
Friday, July 19th, 2013
Pope Francis has said Catholics can earn a plenary indulgence by participating in World Youth Day activities — even through Twitter or other social media. Those who attend the July 23-28 WYD event in Brazil may obtain the indulgence, “once a day and under the usual conditions (sacramental Confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer in accordance Read more
Twitter campaign shames media over abortion trial
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Pro-life advocates including celebrities and politicians have used Twitter and Facebook to shame national media in the United States for not covering the trial of an abortionist whose clinic has been dubbed the “House of Horrors”. Pro-life groups decided to use social media as a platform for people to voice their frustrations over the mainstream Read more
Vatican deletes all @pontifex tweets
Friday, March 1st, 2013
Social media became instant media today when the Vatican deleted all of Emeritus Pope Benedict’s tweets from Twitter. The first pope to have his own Twitter account, @Pontifex, Tweeted shortly before his departure from the Vatican: “Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at Read more
Papabili, tweeting papal retreat preacher chosen by Benedict
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
The Italian cardinal leading Pope Benedict XVI’s Lenten retreat has stolen the limelight by tweeting and podcasting his reflections, signaling that detachment from the outside world doesn’t have to mean a total media blackout. The high-flying papal retreat preacher Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi is tweeting his talks in Italian and English Twitter accounts, @CardRavasi and @CardRavasi_en. Cardinal Read more
Pope struggling with Twitter: 5 considerations for @pontifex
Friday, December 21st, 2012
On December 12, Pope Benedict, like no other pope, opened himself up to the world on Twitter. Twitter is a disruptive technology; it challenges, changes and threatens. Introducing the pope to Twitter was always likely to involve some risk. But, however, we are told the Vatican understands the risk and remains hopeful the involvement on Read more
Interview: Claire Diaz-Ortiz – the woman who got the Pope on Twitter
Friday, December 21st, 2012
At 30, Claire Diaz-Ortiz already has a pretty impressive resume. She works as the Manager of Social Innovation at Twitter, founded a charity to help orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa and literally wrote the book on how to use social networking for philanthropy. But last week she added something rather special to her curriculum vitae: Read more