The Candor

Issue date: 2/2/09 Section: Opinion

Media Credit: Will Wojcik

This past week, the Vatican made a leap into the technological age. The Vatican, in an attempt to make itself more accessible to a wider audience of people, launched its own Vatican Youtube.com channel.

Since its creation, the Vatican has posted a whole host of papal addresses and masses. With this creation of the Vatican channel, the Church can now be heard on a different medium and will now be able to reach more people.

In recent history, the Vatican has made a point of utilizing modern media in order to reach the masses. The previous pope, Pope John Paul II, made a point of reaching out to younger crowds. John Paul II made a point of involving the Church in the lives of younger Christians in hopes that they would place greater importance in their love for God. This recent move by Pope Benedict and the Vatican in creating this Youtube page resembles the actions of Pope John Paul II.

This recent move by the Vatican will allow them to make use of a media tool that has picked up in popularity in the past 20 years. In a statement by the Pope, he explained the need for the Church's voice in a pool of voice that often delivers the wrong message. Pope Benedict stated, "The new media - telecommunications and Internet in particular - are changing the very face of communication; perhaps this is a valuable opportunity to reshape it, to make more visible, as my venerable predecessor Pope John Paul II said, the essential and indispensable elements of the truth about the human person."

This move to utilize the Internet in an attempt to get out the Word of God is a brilliant move by the Vatican. Hopefully, the Vatican's message will be more accessible to a wider variety of people.

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