Pope sends text to Aussie kids
Textual assault by senior priest
THE LEADER of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a mass text to thousands of Aussie followers at the climax of his tour Down Under.
Pope BXVI send a text message to pilgrims' mobiles which said, "The Holy Spirit gave the Apostles and gives u the power boldly 2 proclaim that Christ is risen! - BXVI."
More than 100,000 Aussie catholic pilgrims have been meeting up with his holiness and had, in faith, given him their mobile phone numbers.
Apparently the holy father had a few spare minutes and thumbs of fire to bang out 100,000 texts over the course of an hour. Blooming miracle.
There is a nasty snap of the Pope with a Jesus phone here to highlight the story.
Of course we were going to make a reference to the similes between the popish rally and a Steve Jobs keynote, but it was INQuisitored out by our Apple loving sub-editors. µ
Comments
Pffft
Damn nazi phone with damn nazi pope, purchased with hundreds of years worth of plunder, damn pirates. Flithy crooks!Was that to offensive?
Anti-Popery?
Ahem... you Brits still have your knickers in a twist that the Pope wouldn't give that child-molesting pervert Henry the 8th a divorce? Waaaaa... what sissies. Get over it.again?
whats wrong with the catholic church? after al the schandals, now the pope is going after kids? that txt dating must really be taking of.SMS?
(from the l'INQ)"The Pope will send his first SMS today to thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims who have signed up to receive divine direction via technology. "
The Iphone does SMS?
Cheers,
John
why not real names ?
I guess noone believes that popes are born with latin names lol.Real name: Joseph Alois Ratzinger according to wikipedia..
Pope Ratzinger dosn't really have that religious ring to it =)