Pope Benedict XVI Praises Jesus In First Ever Tweet (VIDEO)

Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time today, the Vatican has confirmed. (Scroll down for video of the Pope sending his first tweet.)

The Pope used his inaugural tweet to announce the launch of news.va, a Vatican news and information portal. He added "Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus."

The tweet was sent from the Vatican News Twitter account, with roughly 12,000 followers but sure to skyrocket following the Pope's tweet.

Vatican officials said that Benedict used his own finger to send the tweet on a touchpad. According to Twitter.com metadata, the tweet was sent from "Twitter for iPad."

Take a look at the tweet below and let us know what you think of it in the comments.

Dear Friends, I just launched http://t.co/fVHpS9y Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVIless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPad Favorite Retweet ReplyVatican - news
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Comments

[arabia]

11:18 AM on 07/04/2011

Personally, I don't see how he will have the time between papal weekly audiences for tens of thousands of people from around the globe, writing books, private prayer, public liturgies, meeting statespeople and diplomats from around the world, overseeing the overseers of the Vatican, visiting countries (he's going to Spain next month, Germany in September), etc. Where will he find the time? He'll have to keep the messages very short -- if he has time at all.

[thebigbike]

01:01 AM on 07/04/2011

the pope used his own finger......... wow. his very own finger. gosh. talk about moving into the 21st century. i'm impressed. now, if he could give that finger to his bishops that are still concealing child abuse, enabling pedophiliac and rapist priests.... oh never mind.

[thecoffeewake]

06:43 PM on 07/02/2011

The Coffee Wake exclusively obtained a secret peek at His Holiness’ Twitter direct message inbox. Holy Tweets!! http://thecoffeewake.com/?p=716

[mojones235]

09:31 PM on 06/30/2011

To James Mangan,
I recieve a catholic baptism from my catholic church as a baby.I recieve my first communion by my church as well,and so on. my faith and religion give me, the right to question those who lead us .If you chose to read my concerns,thats your choice.I will continue to question my church if I feel something is wrong,MR. James Mangan

[Dayna Goldstein]

08:48 PM on 06/30/2011

clear evidence that tweeting has jumped the shark

[Isaac R FKim]

10:31 AM on 06/30/2011

woop-dee-freaking-doo.

[ThinkCreeps]

08:23 AM on 06/30/2011

Ding. You've got cant.

[imarie602]

06:36 PM on 06/29/2011

The Pope may be the Anti-Christ.The words "Mystery Babylon" and the Roman numerals DCLXVI (666) appear on the hat worn the Pope

[Zenjil]

05:51 PM on 06/29/2011

Thus the Lord spoke: Let there be 140 characters. Sometimes less, but never more.

[WhatWhat1]

08:19 AM on 06/30/2011

. . . said the raven.

[thinksink]

01:08 PM on 06/29/2011

Then the Pope drank his first Red Bull and played angry birds for 12 hours.

[Veritas is Pro Life]

12:56 PM on 06/29/2011

This a great day. I am so glad God has given us this Pope who is unafraid to engage the downsliding culture with their own tools. True courage. I can't wait to see how the youth of today at World Youth Day soak up his knowledge and turn to set the world afire with the stength of the Holy Spirit. Veritas.

[Cheapthrills]

12:06 PM on 06/29/2011

Well, maybe now that the pope is up-to-date on technology he will get current on religion being a farce.

[stupid humans]

12:05 PM on 06/29/2011

is the huffingposts's religion section the most heavily moderated?

[john1513]

12:33 PM on 06/29/2011

Unless it's anti-religion.

[owlafaye]

02:12 PM on 06/29/2011

Well John1513...considering that 98% of the posts here are ant-Catholic, the moderators are hoping you might get the drift and re-examine your goofy beliefs...so why would they delete popular thought?

Catholicism is a low percentile world religion actually. Although Christianity enjoys less than 15% of the whole of the world, as does Islam, it continues to decline...which is good. Christianity has always been against progress, knowledge, education and self-enlightenment...why wouldn't all decent people flock here to remind you of what a terrible religion Christianity is and chide you for supporting these criminals?

[stupid humans]

11:55 AM on 06/29/2011

so any porn on that Ipad?

[stupid humans]

11:53 AM on 06/29/2011

lol any kiddie porn on that Ipad?

[ThinkCreeps]

08:24 AM on 06/30/2011

He hasn't worked out how to sync it yet.