Pope seeks to connect world’s Roman Catholics on internet

From The Times
May 20, 2009

The Vatican is seeking ways to embrace full online “interactivity” with all one billion members of the global Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church wants to emulate and globalise President Obama’s use of the internet both during his election campaign and with more recent events, such as an online question-and-answer session at the end of March that attracted 100,000 questions and 3.6 million votes.

The new strategy was outlined by the Jesuit priest Father Frederico Lombardi, long-standing head of Vatican Radio, who also took over as head of the Holy See press office on the election of Pope Benedict XVI. the rest