The call to blog took a lot of people by surprise. After all, the 82-year-old from Bavaria is better known for his conservative doctrine and revival of the Latin Mass than for his computer savvy. At first, the Rev. James Martin was startled as well. Martin is the author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything and blogs each day for the Catholic magazine America. Then Martin thought, surely Jesus would blog if he were on the Earth today.

"He didn't sit around and wait for people to come to him," Martin observes. "He went out and met people by the Sea of Galilee who were fishing. He went to tax collectors' booths. He went into synagogues. He went all over the place. And so we need to, figuratively speaking, go out to the ends of the Earth — which includes the blogosphere."

The pope has not announced his own blog. But if he does, he might be wise to listen to the experts.

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1. New Reformation Advocate wrote: Hmmm.  As I’m planning to launch my own blog and website later this spring, anyone out there got some wise words of advice for me, like those offered to the pope in this article? David Handy+ January 28, 2:14 pm | [comment link]

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