myworshipspace

At the beginning of the month there was a story about Sister Judith who runs the Vatican web site and that she was designing a new site to bring together the faithful that was describe as MySpace.com for Catholics. I was intrigues by this idea and subsequently emailed Sister Judith to get some more information on this new initiative. She was kind enough to send me the following screen shots and information about the new site.

This is a sample of the main login page at myworshipspace.com

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Users can build their own profile pages with information like the following:

Unlike myspace.com "No way in Hell" and other variances will be rejected in the Children column. I think there coolest new service is the ability for IM.

The Vatican Intercession Messenger. With VIM you will have lots of vigor to pray.

VIM includes an intercessory contact list so you can easily select your favorite saints for intercession. The prayer database lets you keep track of prayer requests from friends and others. Use the enemies list so you can also pray for your enemies.

All the feature of the new site look pretty cool, but I am really looking forward to one of the new features. Many have complained that it is almost impossible to find anything on the Vatican web site since. If you do find the document you want it is almost always be guaranteed to be in a language you don't speak, even if you speak multiple ones. The Vatican must have been listening sine they have gone ahead and worked out a deal with Google to implement the new search engine. Below is the new logo on the search page.