For the first time, His Holiness the Pope has made a Twitter footprint. Make that a fingerprint, since he pushed click himself to send the very first Papal tweet this afternoon.
In 2005, mourners at Pope John Paul II’s funeral’s chanted “sainthood now.” It looks like the Vatican heard them.
The Pope may not have much use for anything provocative, but he didn’t seem to mind when a troupe of male acrobats stripped off and performed in front of him at the Vatican City last week.
The biggest news of the weekend was the headline-perfect story that Pope Benedict XVI was endorsing condoms after the Vatican’s decades old stance against them. The problem? That’s not actually true. (via TIME)
Happy hump day! Enjoy your mid-day, mid-week break with fashion, poetry and dramatic readings of Justin Bieber.
If the Vatican says so, it must be true.
