Date:3/29/2010

viewed (and likely prayed) the Facebook Rosary, and 4,280 users across all 6 continents have added it to their social media bookmarks. “The fact is that a lot of people are searching through the social media. They're looking for something; they're trying to fill a void. I'm trying to make sure that what I add into that void is something good and useful.”

Pope Benedict agrees that the social web is an important place for the church to be present. In his address on this year's World Communications Day, the pontiff spoke about the responsibility of priests and religious in the arena of the social web.

“Consecrated men and women working in the media have a special responsibility,” the Pope says, “to help the men and women of our digital age to sense the Lord’s presence, to grow in expectation and hope, and to draw near to the Word of God. In this way the Word can traverse the many crossroads created by the intersection of all the different 'highways' that form 'cyberspace.'”

Sister Mary Agnes is certainly using different “highways.” Her online presence includes a profile on a social network for active runners called DailyMile, where she promotes her community's annual 5k Road Race fundraiser and chronicles her own struggle to get back into the habit of running. “I got a request this morning from a Catholic runner in Mexico, who said he just wanted to have a sister as a friend.”
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