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Technology continues to sneak it’s way into every aspect of our daily lives, including our personal religious beliefs. There have been applications on most all mobile platforms to provide religious readings or instruction in many different faiths for quite some time now.

However, now the Vatican has kicked the level of electronic observance up a notch by apparently making the Pope utterly wired, debuting a brand new Web Portal for Benedict as well as custom iPhone and FaceBook applications.

The Jerusalem Post reports…

In its first day of operation Thursday, the Pope2You portal gathered some 45,000 contacts and 500,000 page views, while a Facebook application that sends postcards with photos of Benedict and excerpts from his messages was used around 10,000 times, the head of the project said.

Also available on the portal is an application for iPhone and iPod Touch that gives surfers video and audio news on the pope’s trips and speeches, as well as on Catholic events worldwide.

No word yet on how many friends the Pope has on Twitter, or if he or Jesus have Plurk accounts. However, by allowing the Vatican to choose FaceBook, it seems that The Almighty has entered the great social website debate and decreed that MySpace is, in fact, tired and “soooo last Millennium”.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).