PopeTube: Benedict XVI launches internet Vatican channel

He may not be in with the local Emo cult, and you’re unlikely to see him hanging out at a skateboard park. But the Holy Father moved one step closer to cool today when he launched the Vatican’s own YouTube site on Google.

Pope Benedict XVI said he wanted to reach out to “the digital generation”, but in doing so he warned the young against the dangers of “sharing words and images that are degrading of human beings, that promote hatred and intolerance, that debase the goodness and intimacy of human sexuality or that exploit the weak and vulnerable”.

In a message marking World Communications Day, the 81-year-old said new digital technologies were “bringing about fundamental shifts in patterns of communication and human relationships”.

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