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Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet on Wednesday June the 29th to the Vatican’s news portal, www.news.va. He did on a papal iPad. The day also marked the 84-year-old pontiff’s 60th of his ordination as a priest. He in English: "Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI." The new portal is the latest by the Vatican to use technology and networking sites to connect with a wider audience. It will gather together from all of the Vatican’s departments and update this three times a day. The Vatican’s twitter account has over 50,000 but follows no one.

Pope Benedict understands the of using the latest technology. On World Communications Day, 2010, he workers in the Catholic Church to use it to communicate the Bible’s to their followers. He said: “Priests stand at the threshold of a new . As new technologies create …relationships across distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media…at the of the Word.” Vatican official Thaddeus Jones said the Pope was "interested and impressed” with Twitter and the iPad. He reporters that the Pope “was clearly in at the new technology”. He added: “It's a lighter moment but also an important one. It marks a new of communicating.”