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Pope Benedict XVI since Friday has its own channel on YouTube, the Internet site to share digital videos, to report directly, without mediation malignant on the activities of the papacy.

The site http://it.youtube.com/vatican was symbolically named by the Pope, who admitted that "the new digital technologies are creating fundamental changes in human relationships, especially among young people." The Pope has always welcomed the new technologies, which he described as "a true gift to humanity."


Despite this, the pontiff urged "to monitor who is in the service of all people and all communities, especially those most needy and vulnerable" in a message released Friday at the World Day of Communication Social.

The conference was opened with the launch of the video site of the Vatican on the Internet. "We will reach a large audience, overall, to have contact with everyone, beyond the Catholic environments," said Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi to present the initiative.


The Holy See now has a website in several languages (www.vatican.va), as well as an international broadcaster (Vatican Radio) and a television production center that covers all activities of the Pope. "We wanted to take another step" in YouTube, said Lombardi, who aspires to become "a large network in the Network."

In the video portal can be admired stories in Italian, English, Spanish and German and will be "a credible source and continuing to understand the message of the Pope, the spokesman said the pope.


The internet can see from this Friday a dozen videos of two minutes, including the conclusion of the Angelus last Sunday January 18 from the Vatican, the pope faces the window.