Is this the end of churches?
That would be an ecumenical matter.
The Vatican is to update its notoriously creaky comms operation this week, with a new easy to use and doctrinally sound news portal. News.va will, apparently, be launched with a papal click of the mouse by Pope Benedict himself, doubtless leading to questions as to whether this will make the site the world's only infallible …
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When the last pope snuffed it, I sent them my CV. Wasn't actively looking for a job, but I was younger and my own jumbo would have been a bit of a statement. And I could have done a much better job anyway.
I'll give it to them that Vatican's site was so slow it must have been under a good DDOS.
Still, do you think they ever got back to me, or even sent me an automated message acknowledging that they received it?
..of the web development team in the Vatican.
A group of monks with hair t-shirts with geeky slogans (in Latin of course) under their habits, sandals, retro D & G glasses, cans of "papal cola" which they make into pyramids, before knocking them down with rubber copies of the Bible hurled from their rosaries. They'll be sat at desks where the drawers are full to overflowing of odd bits and bobs; reliquaries containing the KFC chicken bones from lunch a week ago, copies of the wicked Bible in plain paper wrappers, the Turin Shroud, knocked off DVD's of "Father Ted", snow globes of Nazareth etc.
And of course, about half of the day will be taken up with conversations about who has managed to have a conversation with Sister Mary Lazarus!