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After its upcoming debut was announced, rumors abounded as to which Twitter handle the Vatican would use for personal tweets from Pope Benedict XVI. Rocco Palmo suggested it might be @BenedictusPPXVI. The real address, which will be updated beginning on December 12, is @Pontifex—an impersonal handle that popes will be able to use for centuries. Or, well, for as many years as Twitter lasts.
Already the wags are out in force. A certain Mr. Ryan Fesko seems not to understand how Twitter, or communion, works:
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Nor are others doing any better:
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No, Mr. Ellis, following the pope on Twitter will not get you to heaven. In fact, I believe Benedict would encourage you to follow someone else . . . what’s the name I’m looking for here?
December 3rd, 2012 | 1:33 pm
To preach the Gospel, you have to go where people are. Sure, the pope can expect to get hostile and disrespectful tweets, but his message may reach the open-minded. (I hope Fordham–my alma mater–will keep track of any nasty tweets that the Holy Father may receive from the notable and veterans of the lecture circuit since the administration just made Ann Coulter the first person named to its Index of Forbidden Speakers–the criteria being engaging in ad hominem attacks, behaving uncivilly, and general intolerance.)
December 4th, 2012 | 5:26 am
[...] for the women’s ordination (full text).Dylan Parry, Tim Stanley, Jimmy Akin, Joshua Keating, Matthew Schmitz and The Onion react to the Pope’s decision to open a personal Twitter account, @pontifex.Fr [...]
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