Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday will be launching a new Vatican portal, offering an
exclusive, multimedia presentation of all the other communications websites of the
Holy See. The portal, to be found at www.news.va includes the best of our own Vatican
Radio site, but also the latest news from the newspaper, l’Osservatore Romano, from
the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, from VIS, the Vatican’s Information
Service and from the Fides missionary news agency. Available initially in English
and Italian, the new site uses some of the latest digital technology to offer audio
and video streaming, plus high quality images and a twitter feed providing instant
news headlines to smart phones and other mobile devices. The new portal was launched
on Monday at a press conference with the president of the Pontifical council for Social
Communications, Archbishop Claudio Celli – Philippa Hitchen spoke to him to find out
all the details….