Pope Benedict XVI has sent his initial twitter to launch a Vatican headlines and data portal on the 60th jubilee of his ordination.
His summary read: "Dear Friends, we only launched News.va Praised be the Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI."
The Pope, 84, tapped an iPad to trigger the portal and send the tweet.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are all right away being used by the Vatican to expansion its Christian message.
Its Twitter account has more than 33,000 supporters but "follows" nobody.
Images expelled by the Vatican showed the Roman Catholic personality seated at a list with officials station by to help him use the inscription computer.
The launch took place on Tuesday GMT but was directed to coexist with the take a break day of St Peter and Paul on Wednesday, that is moreover the jubilee of Pope Benedict receiving Holy Orders.
An essay on the ordination led Wednesday's News.va headlines page, recalling how Joseph Ratzinger, then 24, was consecrated on a "radiant summer day" along with 42 other young men.
Under a trademark that reads "News.va, The Vatican Today", the new portal offers "an exclusive, multimedia display of all the other communications websites of the Holy See", inclusive Vatican Radio, the journal l'Osservatore Romano and the Misna companion headlines agency.
Pope Benedict's six-year papacy has been bedevilled by bad communications.
Embarrassing clarifications had to be issued over such troublesome problems as his 2005 debate about Islam and violence, and his position on condoms and HIV.
Earlier this month, the Vatican voiced skeleton to set up a new e-learning centre to help guarantee young kids and victims of passionate abuse by clergy, as segment of its efforts to attend to deleterious scandals.
Last month the Pope issued new orders to bishops, creation coherent that any suspected abuse by priests contingency always be reported to police.
Reacting to the initial pope tweet, a few Twitter users joked about the iPad, asking if the Pope had a aid deal.
A twitter from other user, Shanna Quinn in Chicago, read: "The pope is on twitter...this may means my mother will be on twitter really soon."
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