Pope John Paul II is clearly the first pope to have such a close relationship with the media. In most part due to his weekly gossip column in the L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO, as well as his world renowned and highly celebrated weblog.
The Pope regularly posted his insight on world events, Vatican happenings and occasionally clever and amusing articles found on Fark.com.
"Pope, all your cyber buddies got your back!" commented B4Sinna_36. One of the many avid readers of the Pope's blog. Postings such as this now fill the dead space left by the now vacant Pope.
The Pope has not posted site January 12, 2005. This last update was as follow.
1/12 – Once again I have having a hard time shaking this bug. I have been so heavily medicated I slept through last weeks Apprentice. I am not sure who was fired but as always they have my blessing. I have a heads up from the man up stairs we can expect another Patriots victory. I wanted once again express my thanks and blessings to all of you that helped me make the change to Linux; you should notice the forum operates much faster and with far less downtime. 1 4R3 T3H HAX0R. 60d B|355 3v3ry0n3.
Website administrators for the Pope's blog are unable to determine just when the Pope will resume his updating duties
"The Pope is very 'hands on' with his blog." Said a website admin. "He will accept no impostors offering daily dish. Plus no one could come close to pulling off his online comic strip 'In My Holy Opinion'. He sure does keep God zany."
