Vatican adapts to new communication age

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11288397.htm

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican press office is notoriously strict about its closing times, turning off the lights and kicking reporters out at 3 p.m. sharp, even if they're typing urgent news. So it was a remarkable development when papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced Friday that the office would stay open overnight.

With the world's attention focused on Pope John Paul II in an age of instant global communications, procedure at the Vatican swiftly changed...


Lisa Owen of Television New Zealand flew in from London and picked up her Vatican press credentials - a sometimes lengthy process that was being expedited to accommodate the throngs of media converging on Rome.

The apparent willingness of the Vatican to cater to the media was in sharp contrast to past practice.

There's a Jeff Gannon joke in there somewhere...

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1. Are they also going to, you know, come to their senses too?

Or would that just be holding my breath?

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