Vatican And The iGod Generation

Available now for an iPod near you: Vatican documents, which can be downloaded to your very own portable MP3 player.

"In the beginning there was… Madonna. Now you can also download Pope Benedict XVI into your iPod.

"Inspired by Vatican documents that called on Church officials to exploit the full potentials of the computer age, the Holy See’s official broadcaster, Vatican Radio, is ‘podcasting’ audio content to any of the world’s one billion plus Catholics who own a portable MP3 player.

"The service, launched with little fanfare during the summer, has proved unexpectedly popular.

"’It has been a success right from the start,’ says Jean-Charles Putzolu of the Vatican Radio’s web team."

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I’m no techno-geek but I did a bit of Internet fishing to try to find the Vatican’s podcast service. If you are a techno-geek and if you want to start listening to Vatican podcasts, I think you need to go to the site of Vatican Radio.

5 thoughts on “Vatican And The iGod Generation”

  2. It still looks like its in the working stage. Looking at the HTML it just looks like a bunch of web clips.
    However, you can get the English features of Vatican Radios of at One O Five Live http://www.radiovaticana.org/inglese/105/en_information.html
    and the RSS podcast feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/vaticanradio105live
    That is the full 30 minute features program. However, if you are like me as much as you like the features, you’d like also the full 20 minute Vatican News program contact Vatican Radio contact Sean Lovett of Vatican Radio at seanpatricklovett@yahoo.com .
    For a reference point on Catholic podcasts there is a good site at http://www.apostle.com/catholic_podcasts.htm . For example on the web page you can find out that EWTN is podcasting at http://www.ewtn.com/podcast/ .

  3. I’m not much of a gadget junkie.
    I still haven’t figured out how to program my toaster.
    Sounds cool, though!

  4. One O Five Live may be subscribed to easily if you have the free iTunes software. Just go to the Podcasts section and look under Religion/Spirituality. Another good one is Fr. Roderick’s CatholicInsider. I’m still looking forward to getting Catholic Answers Live via podcast!

  5. “In the beginning there was… Madonna. Now you can also download Pope Benedict XVI into your iPod.
    We’ve come a long way, baby! 😉

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