First it was YouTube, then comes Facebook, Now its Twitter! Yes my dear young and not so young catholics, the Pope has also invaded the most popular micro blogging site called twitter! After launching the Youtube channel early January last year and also launching the Facebook Page on May last year, The Vatican has finally caught up with the social networking trend by creating not only one, but six Twitter channels for all the youths and adults all over the world.

The Vatican made its foray into the social networking platform Twitter this weekend by launching a feed in six languages.

Twitter is a free, micro-blogging service that allows users to send or receive brief messages — or “tweets” — through a computer or smartphone.

The English channel is named news_va_en. The other languages are Italian (news_va_it), Spanish (news_va_es), French (news_va_fr), German (news_va_de) and Portuguese (news_va_pt).

Through these Twitter channels, Vatican Radio and the other media sources of the Holy See will diffuse information about the publication of news and multimedia content of special interest for the life of the Church.

The Vatican also launched a new Web page (www.resources.va) on which it will offer multimedia information on current topics.

The launch of the two new Internet resources coincided with Benedict XVI’s Letter to the Catholics of Ireland Regarding the Clerical Sexual Abuse Crisis.

For more than a year the Vatican has also had its own Youtube channel