YOU won't get an e-mail saying the Pope added you as a friend, and you can't "poke" him or write on his wall, but the Vatican is still keen to use the networking site Facebook to woo young people back to church.
A new Vatican website,
www.pope2you.net, has gone live and offers an application called "The Pope meets you on Facebook", and another allowing the faithful to download his speeches and messages to their iPhones or iPods.
The Vatican's World Communications Day this Sunday is devoted to spreading the gospel via new technologies.
"We recognise that a church that does not communicate ceases to be a church," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican's Social Communications department.
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