The Pope Is A Pod Person!!!

Spooky_b16You may have seen this elsewhere, and it’s kinda old news, but for those who haven’t heard. . . .

THE POPE IS A POD PERSON!

Yes, it’s true.

B16 was given a 2 gig iPod Nano by the staff of Vatican Radio.

They loaded it with a buncha goodies:

The pope’s new 2-gigabyte digital audio player already was loaded with a sampling of the radio’s programming in English, Italian and German and musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky. The stainless steel back was engraved with the words "To His Holiness, Benedict XVI" in Italian.

Once the pope, who is also a pianist, gets the hang of the device’s trademark click wheel, he will be able to listen to a special 20-minute feature produced by the radio’s English program that highlights Mozart’s life and music to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth.

The iPod also contains an English-language radio drama on the life of St. Thomas a Becket and a 10-minute feature on the creation of Vatican Radio, with original sound clips of the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, and Vatican Radio’s founder, Pope Pius XI.

The pope also can relive the historical papal transition of April 2005. On the player, the radio’s German program included a mix of news and interviews done during the death of Pope John Paul II, the conclave and the election of Pope Benedict.

Now, popes get a lot of presents. People shove them into their hands all the time, and a lot of gifts (I’m sure) are gratefully received but then never actually get used. So has the pope actually started using his iPod? According to The Mirror, he has:

Yet despite his traditional views, Pope Benedict enjoys listening to his iPod as he walks around the Vatican [SOURCE].

But then that’s The Mirror. So who knows?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “The Pope Is A Pod Person!!!”

  1. Yet despite his traditional views,
    I wonder how hard it was for them not to write that he’s against contraception, gay marriage, and women priests.

  2. Yet despite his traditional views,

    I wonder how hard it was for them not to write that he’s against contraception, gay marriage, and women priests.

    Because traditionally, Catholic moralists have considered portable digital media players to be unnatural.

  3. Steven’s right. Even the 1981 document allowing Catholics to use the crank-up Victrola, under certain limited circumstances, was widely seen as a departure from “traditional” bans on all “non-traditional” forms of playing music… 🙂

  7. Who wouldn’t use an Ipod anano if it was given to him?
    I got one for Christmas, and it is so wonderful, and enormously beneficial to my faith.
    Hey, I’ve got the rosary on it!

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