{"id":11143,"date":"2011-03-13T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11143"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:00:19","slug":"venerable-john-paul-ii-facebook-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/03\/venerable-john-paul-ii-facebook-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Venerable John Paul II Facebook Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rumors that deceased Pope John Paul II is joining Facebok have been confirmed by the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page for the late pope will be unveiled by the Vatican in an effort to promote his beautification.<\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Paul Tighe, one of the Vatican\u2019s top two in the social media department, said \u201cWhat we found is that Facebook doesn\u2019t just share information, it creates community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that the page will link to video highlights of John Paul\u2019s 27-year papal run.<\/p>\n<p>The church will also expand its media focus to include a Vatican news portal, to begin on Easter. The Vatican\u2019s first message reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat interactivity \u2014 and the potential it brings to the church&#8217;s evangelization mission \u2014 is behind the Vatican&#8217;s new social media push, the culmination of which will be launched at Easter with a new Vatican information web portal whose contents are specifically designed to be tweeted, posted and blogged.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdage.com\/news\/pope-john-paul-ii-joining-facebook_3-13-2011#ixzz1GXDNFONO\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well if the story is true, it seems like a pretty Catholic idea to me to have a dead person with a Facebook page. \u00a0The Communion of Saints is a reality, though you don&#8217;t need a Facebook account to friend these friends of God. \u00a0The Wall will be more like the Wailing Wall where people will post notes for intercessory requests. \u00a0Just remember chat is fully functional with the Communion of Saints, but not Facebook chat and don&#8217;t expect to play &#8220;Words with Friends&#8221; with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors that deceased Pope John Paul II is joining Facebok have been confirmed by the Vatican. The Facebook page for the late pope will be unveiled by the Vatican in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11144,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}