It does not have quite the same ring as a papal bull, but Catholics looking to stay in touch with the Holy Father are about to get acquainted with the papal tweet.
Fourteen centuries after popes started using papal bull missives to communicate with the flock, Benedict XVI is due to open a Twitter account, a Vatican official has announced.
"The tweet can be reformulated, redistributed, relaunched and disseminated," said Father Claudio Maria Celli, the head of the Vatican's pontifical council for social communications, as he announced the initiative.
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