The answer is YES, @Judes_Dickey
Yesterday we learned Pope Benedict XV has joined Twitter, which means two things: (1) Get ready to be followed by your grandma on Twitter, and (2) We're going to have so much fun with this. The Pope's representative at Vatican Communication asked Twitter to post questions for @Pontifex using the hashtag #AskPontifex. According to WIRED, Pope Benedict XVI will post his first tweet on December 12, answering some of these questions. Until then, people can submit questions, and boy is the Vatican going to have a job trying to find the serious questions of faith among everything tagged #AskPontifex from yesterday till the 12th. The hashtag's contents are truly a thing to behold.
We've collected over 30 of the funniest #AskPontifex questions for the Pope we've spotted so far. I don't know if I can wait till the 12th to find out whether His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI would prefer to fight 1000 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. Important matters, these.
Uh, you're probably asking the wrong guy, @bsfullerton.
That would be an ecumenical matter, @Pornjers
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I truly hope there is a God. Its going to make the judgement so much more interesting watching people have to explain being a dick to the pope.
#AssumingCatholicsAreRight
He was a child Nazi. Next question, God.
How come it’s so vogue to poke fun of Christians but not Muslims? Oh right, Christians say they’ll pray for your soul. Muslims will just bomb your car.
I make fun of Muslims all the time.
I admire the Pope for trying to reach out. But his whole team should be fired if they didn’t anticipate this.
I don’t think you can fault a team of clerics for having faith/hoping that the online community wouldn’t act like a bunch of savages.
And don’t tell me the online world is savage. I think we all get along pretty well here at Uproxx.
I think we can all agree that technology in general, and the internet in particular, can create a detachment from cultural mores, and that very few of those people would have acted so disrespectfully in person.
LOUD NOISES!!!
Wonder how the Pontiff’s team felt when they received a tweet from @drunkenmadman.
This is exactly what Twitter is for and why I like it. But I mostly hate it.