Pope Benedict Videos

Matt Maher Testimony at Lift Ministries

Pope Benedict XVI swats at a spider during a speech in the Czech Republic.

WBZ's Laurie Kirby with more.

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy BREAKING NEWS: Pope Benedict announces the Vatican's new YouTube channel, and the fact that he has reinstated an excommunicated priest who is a holocaust denier. Read more about this at the Huffington Post website. Digg this story. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. You can now get FREE daily Headzup clips using Twitter DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. FACEBOOK Join us on Facebook. TWITTER Free mobile videos by following us on Twitter. copyright, 2009 - Headzup Entertainment

Google announced today that it is delighted at the debut of the new Vatican channel on YouTube. Concurrent with World Communication Day, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates today s launch with twelve short videos on their new channel. The launch video, Vatican Communications HD, strongly reminds us of the social studies films we saw at school in the 1970 s. You remember: the ones in which we celebrate modern technologies, like telephones and color tv. Embedding of this, and the other Vatican videos is disabled by request, so the best we can do is give you this pretty screen capture (right) and a link. (Marshall Kirkpatrick, at ReadWriteWeb, muses that Perhaps he doesn t see it as a way to talk to nonbelievers on other sites . presumably the Vatican doesn t want the Pope s videos showing up in snarky blog posts like this, or worse. ) In a statement celebrating World Communications Day, the Holy Father says of the social communications media, that the media have acquired extraordinary potential, while raising new and hitherto unimaginable questions and problems, and that it exercis[es] a negative influence on people’s consciences and choices and definitively conditioning their freedom and their very lives. Toward that end, Pope Benedict says, The new media – telecommunications and internet in particular – are changing the very face of communication; perhaps this is a valuable opportunity to reshape it, to make more visible, as my venerable predecessor Pope John Paul II said, the essential and indispensable elements of the truth about the human person. Thus the YouTube channel. The initial batch of twelve videos include highlights of a recent baptismal service at the Sistine Chapel, a blessing of the lambs whose wool will be used in ceremonial garments later this year, and even a video with the Pope s musings on the media as a voice in the service of peace, and another about the Internet as a new way to speak of God. Vatican Channel content is available in English, Spanish, Italian, and German language.

Excerpts from a symposium on Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey to the United States. The symposium featured Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus ( Editor in Chief, First Things) , Fr. John Farren, OP ( a Dominican priest and Director of Advancement, Dominican Province of St. Joseph), and Angelo Matera (Publisher and Editor, Godspy.com). June 18 at 7:00 PM St. Vincent Ferrer Church, NYC. Included in this 10 min excerpt are remarks from Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. and Fr. John Farren, OP. The full video can be seen at dominicanfriars.org