The Pope: Texting the Good Word
Newsweek, April, 2004 by Malcolm Beith
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Feeling out of touch with your faith? Pope John Paul II's offering a remedy: a daily text message to America's most tech-savvy Roman Catholics. For 30 cents a message, Verizon Wireless is offering subscribers a "Thought of the Day" from the pope himself. "He's pretty dexterous," jokes Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon spokesman.
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(The messages are lifted from speeches and homilies--no actual papal typing is involved.) The Irish, British and Italians have been able to subscribe to the service since last year. The question is whether young Americans--who remain slower than the rest of the world in taking to text messages--will embrace the idea. David Early, spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is ...
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