Pope Benedict XVI texting out messages of encouragement
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 16th 2008 7:58AM
posted Jul 16th 2008 7:58AM
[Thanks, zedster]
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Prank text him back? "You ever see the movie Dogma dude? And whats up with you not letting Dan Brown film Angels and Demons ??? Kaaaaa mon man! I LOL dude, LOL...dinner at 8?"
All ur soul r blng 2 us
hahaha! they could save some letters if they use: "Don't 4get 2 Pray 2day" or "C U @ Church 2day" ... this was announced a while back (May) and you can read more about it here: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=153171&f_src=flffour
Why doesn't he just put his hands together and pray to them? Doesn't that work any more? Is the prayer infrastructure running out of bandwidth?
now I'm really confused. Is the Pope now part of the cult, or is Apple now part of the cult?
hes got the jesus phone
I guess the Papal infallibility isn't present in text messages ("u" & "Fathers").
next thing you know the pope will annouce he's "3li3t h4x0r".
i bet he's even got the celling cat bible,
the pope pwns
sorry thtas the lolcat bible, my bad.
Eliet ? You mean Elite? 3l13+ ...or 3lit3 ...learn to write leet, NOOB
@shadowkain
thank you for pointing out my spelling mistake, but i think you get the general jist of the comment, just one thing there is a little thing called dyslexia, it happens to be that i have it.
(there really should be a edit button on these comments.)
"just one thing there is a little thing called dyslexia"
dyslexia is teh suck. Seriously, I doubt anyone but grammar nazis would notice any letter transposition these days. They'll just assume you're hip.
@nanobis: what you got is assclownlexia
This is the cancer that is killing Engadget.
Engadget readers should be allowed to vote for the deletion of a post, reply, or entire thread. This thread serves as a good example of its intended use.
indeed so, i call upon the dev team to do somthing about it.
come on engadget sort it out.
Sorry nanobis, I was including your original post in that, too. It's not the spelling that puts me off, it's the appallingly high level of lame.
dear mr. pope,
god called. he says thanks for finally entering the 20th centurry
21st century. Besides, text messaging will go away as IM becomes significantly more accessible. Then the Pope's staff will have to take care of the constant influx AOL IM and Google Talk and Jabber and Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger messages.
And the Pope still has no Twitter, Jaiku or FriendFeed accounts. Why not?
That shouldn't be too much of a problem, just set him up with pidgin or digsby.
The phone could've been a NOKIA or a Samsung, or maybe a Motorola, but Engadget decided it should be an iPhone. *sigh*
Yeah, Whatev's.
iPhone + Religion = 1000 post...MEGA FLAME THREAD!
All they needed to do was make the pope into an XBox avatar and then you will have an epic meltdown on your hands.
Ain't that the truth.
Engadget didn't decide this, the Associated Press did.
Thats the actual photo on the side of the building/
Source please, Dale.
read link = source...the picture is there
Perhaps if you were to RTFA, you wouldn't need to ask for a source.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24018671-5016672,00.html
That's the undoctored image that was projected on to one of the support columns of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
And is it just me or are the comment pages on Engadget getting increasingly more hostile lately?
@ Orinjz: Thank you mate.
Dale Massey, SGAg07 and insertAlias, you guys are what is wrong in this world of media brainwash and brain damage, but thank you anyways.
psst, they aren't laughing WITH you, they're laughing AT you!
“Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
OMG indeed.
Coming full circle, apple to apple, ironic isn't it?
LOL I love it. Apple has bought the church... Buy an iPhone and go straight to haven?
haven is a crappy caravan holiday park in England....why would you go there?
surely heaven would be a more logical choice
They say he's a new pope. He's hardly new, is he?
(not my joke, mad props to Karl Pilkington)
I thought the Popemobile was bulletproof.
This is all just part of the church's way of getting in "touch" with the little boys and girls of the future. Dear Johnny meet me after school for some Necco wafers. -Pope
You're an idiot, which explains why you like Jeep Patriots.
I start to understand why on my new iPhone there is this new icon that looks like a cross with St.Peters keys. If you press it you just hear a celestial piper sound and the flashing words: " call directly"
I want my iPope too
I didn't see the Vatican on the list of countries receiving the iPhone - he must have got it jailbroken.
Maybe the Vatican will get penalised along with Britain in not getting so many white iPhone 3Gs.
I didn't see the Vatican on the list of countries receiving the iPhone - he must have got it jailbroken.
Maybe the Vatican will get penalised along with Britain in not getting so many white iPhone 3Gs.
Wait, he has an iPhone 3G.
And Steve Jobs is atheist.
So this leads to the question WWJC what would Jesus carry?
Iphone? N96? RZAR?
The jPhone.
Duuh.
Jesus was a homeless peasant in an occupied territory (picture a working class person living in Iraq). If he were going to be sending text messages, they would probably be text flipped from a gmail account that he uses from a public computer somewhere. Or, he'd be using whatever phone was donated to him for the cause...
This probably makes the "what would Jesus drive?" question irrelevant too.
Eddie you must be the life of the party when you go out
Does it worry anyone that that pic of the Pope with the Iphone looks remarkably like one of the pics of the Ori prior from SG1?
"Hallowed are the Iphones..."
i hav respex 4 t pope nw
So kids send a text message to a number and it is displayed on a giant 'prayer wall'? They are effectively enabling everyone on the planet to cover a holy monument with digital graffiti with complete anonymity?
This really won't end well.
Oh, I cannot let this one go. Tell the great Pope Benedict, that when he really reads the Bible, he will know how and what GOD expects of man ans woman in this world. In Genisis 2 vs 18. And the Lord GOD said, It is not right that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genisis 2 vs 21. And the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, as he slept;and he took one rib, and closed up the flesh therefo; Geneis 2 v 22 And the rib, which the Lord GOD had taken from man, made a woman, and brought her unto the man. Genesis 2 vs 24 Therefore shall man cleve unto his WIFE; amd they will be one flesh. Celebracy is only a rule of the church changed in the year of 1100. When the priests are able to marry and have a wife as GOD decreed then man will be whole and you will find priests falling out of the windows. Celebracy is a false teaching of the Catholic church and against GOD,S laws. Set them free and you evil leaders will be set free your selves from SIN. Pope Benedict, I DEMAND that you make this right in the eyes of GOD. Then there will be no more pedofiles. amen.
Okay, let's start here:
Clerical Celibacy is a rule of the Western Church. There are over 20 Rites that are part of the Catholic Church. Only the Roman Rite (the largest Rite) does not allow married men to be ordained to the Priesthood. It does allow married men to be ordained to the Deaconate. The Eastern Rites allow married men to be ordained to the Deaconate and Priesthood, but not to the Episcopate.
No rite allows ordained men to be married, except under one case where the Pope may grant a dispensation if a married priest's wife dies, and he has young children (the children need a mother, so he may be allowed to remarry).
Second, Clerical celibacy does not degrade the calling of Marriage at all. Both marriage and ordination are sacraments instituted by Christ. Neither is a "better" calling, they are just different callings.
And for the final point: How do you explain the greater number of pedophiles found in protestant ministers and Jewish Rabbis? They are allowed to marry, so logic says married clergy is not the answer
~G
SHEESH! This is engadget... no place for a silly anti-Catholic rant here. However, just to point out your total IGNORANCE:
Matthew 19:10 His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry. 11 Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. 12 For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.
1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I. ... 32 ... He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. 33 But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. 34 And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband.
he kind of looks like lord palatine, creepy smile, holding some powerful phone or whatever, like from star wars???
http://members.optushome.com.au/wheezle/9958184_1d3029f0e7.jpg
What is wrong with the the pope saying via text to a group of disgruntled youth: Don't 4Get 2 Pray 2Day!(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=153171&F_src=flftwo)
IDK my BFF God?
xDDDD
You need to be "Highest Ranked" for that.
That image is offensive (Pope holding the iPhone 3G). It's obviously photoshopped and is in poor taste.
Forgive the latent heathen in me but what is offensive about the Pope holding an iPhone 3G?
god uses iPhone. I beleive they have 3g in heaven :)
Nah, they'll have free WiFi everywhere. If there is an afterlife. Which I, being an atheist, do not believe in.
i think that pope benedict looks
a little to much like darth sidious
guess I picked the wrong thread to comment on today considering *what* I am, nevermind *who* I am. ;)
Yet you still commented?
I think it is so wrong for the Pope to lure kids in to the cult of Jesus with an iPhone and text messaging. This is a low and underhanded ploy to get him to look "cool" in the eyes of todays youth. What, is preaching abstinence not getting the cool points you thought it??? Now you have to invade the sacred spaces of our phones? Pope, get off it and let people live their lives, especially the youth of the world. Let them make their own decisions.
What with the grudge against the iPope? you have an iPhone 3G like he does?
Darth sidious in white?
In heaven it is going all open wifi, remember no room for closed systems/networks in heaven.
What disturbs me most about this is the annoying AOL kiddie txt spk - is it that hard to write "you" instead of "u"?
Anyone read Ben Elton's latest, Blind Faith? Ev Love.
Yeah, he taught abstinence to your parents, yet they still had you, so he said "well that didn’t work, hey get me an iphone, I'm going to make sure that never happens again".
P.S. Wasn't it YOUR decision to comment? Then just use YOUR decision not to text him. Then God will use HIS decision to damn you to eternal hell. Man, that was difficult.