As every avid Twitter user knows, there are only 140 characters in a “tweet” and that includes the empty spaces.
The bishops gathered at the ancient Council of Nicea didn’t face that kind of communications challenge and, thus, produced an old-fashioned creed that in English is at least 1,161 characters long.
No wonder so many of the gray-haired administrators in black suits in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops struggle with life online.
This past Sunday in my sermon I referred to a Tweet I received, and in the evening my bishop, at the confirmation service, referenced an article he had seen on my facebook wall.