“A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a brand new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music. To honor the pope’s first visit to the radio’s broadcasting headquarters, the radio’s technical staff decided the pencil-thin, state-of-the-art audio player would make the perfect gift,” Carol Glatz reports for Catholic News Service. “Now that Vatican Radio offers podcasts in eight different languages, the pope has the technological capability to plug in and import the radio’s audio files.
“Pope Benedict visited the programming and broadcasting hub of ‘the pope’s radio’ March 3 to mark the station’s 75th anniversary. Though the white iPod nano is tiny, it still made an impression on the pope. When the head of the radio’s technical and computer support department, Mauro Milita, identified himself and handed the pope the boxed iPod, the pope was said to have replied, ‘Computer technology is the future.’ The pope’s new 2-gigabyte digital audio player already was loaded with a sampling of the radio’s programming in English, Italian and German and musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky. The stainless steel back was engraved with the words “To His Holiness, Benedict XVI” in Italian,” Glatz reports.
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Pfft hit the nail on the head!
PopePod, hey now that’s cool!
Where, oh WHERE will he hide it? Probably slip it into his garter belt.
So will there be a new line of Vatican™ approved iPod accessories?
I hear they are retro-fitting the Popemobile® with a new iPod Hi-Fi.
After tasting the iPod, he immediately declared that alter boys’ penises taste better.
iAbuse said: “Ideal for storing kiddie porn and sharing with other Catholic priests.”
Way to funny but sadly true.
I love the Pope because he dresses like a street pimp. Gotta love those rag, man. Kind of acts like a pimp too when he has followers kissing his ring. I wonder if he washes his hands.
I don’t know how this turned into a Pope bashing thread. Morons.
I thought GodCast was pretty funny.
Kind of acts like a pimp too when he has followers kissing his ring.
No, the Pope is the Godfather.
-had to say it
The iPod must be white. You don’t give the Pope a black one, it just isn’t done.
It may only be 2 gig’s but I’m sure he’ll be able to fit 5 gigs or more on it.
Is the iPod on a rope?
You can fit the whole bible on the Nano, minus all the apocryphal books that were added to it. Not that Catholics actually read the bible.