Vatican Launches YouTube Channel, Probably Won’t Read Your Comments

The Vatican is perfecting its eyeliner, adjusting its lip ring, ironing its hair and getting ready to launch its very own YouTube channel.

The channel is an attempt to reach out to Catholics over the internet, as well as to take back some control of the Pope’s online image.

The channel will be updated on a daily basis with two minute-long clips about the goings on at the Vatican and will be presented in a number of languages, including English, Spanish, Italian and German.

For his part, Pope Benedict has publicly pointed out there are both benefits and pitfalls of online technology. He has called social networking sites like MySpace a “gift to humanity” because of their ability to help forge friendships across the world. Oh please don’t have him read YouTube comments. The first “yo u suk and like dickk nukka wut u no” will make the head of the Catholic Church completely lose any remaining hope for the human race.

The internet is only magical insofar as it has given us CuteOverload and Blingee. And everything else is the work of Satan.

The channel supposedly launched last week but, try as we might, we weren’t able to find it on YouTube. We did find “Real Hott Latina Lesbians Im Srious,” though. So, hey.

Pope stars in Vatican’s new YouTube channel [CBC]