Pope to send texts to Aussie Catholics

Crumbs, who knew the Pope was into his mobile messaging? I wonder what phone he has, and what ringtone it’s got. Probably not Cradle Of Filth, it’s fair to say. Okay, so the news that the Pope will send “daily inspirational text messages” to his Australian followers during a visit later this year probably doesn’t mean he’ll be tapping them into a Nokia N73 himself and pressing ‘Send’.However, His Holiness isn’t stopping there – he’ll also be social networking, using digital prayer walls and webcasting using local operator Telstra’s 3G network. And while it’s tempting to write this kind of thing of as a niche, think about the huge audience of Catholics there are worldwide who’d be interested in daily mobile services…(via SMS Text News)