{"id":1087,"date":"2013-03-12T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:56:14","slug":"where-theres-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/where-theres-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Where there’s smoke…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whitesmoke\"<\/a>You may have heard that the Catholic Church is in the process of selecting a new Pope. The Church has been slow to embrace certain changes, e.g. women priests and same-sex marriage, but they have not been as slow to adapt to new communication media. The recently retire pope, Pope Benedict XVI (@pontifex<\/a>), became the first Pope to join Twitter in December of 2012 and the Catholic Church has more than 413K likes on its facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some may find it ironic then that the Church, in this modern digital age, still uses smoke signals to announce the results of a successful election. When the bishops have selected the new Pope, the smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel will switch from black to white.<\/p>\n

In a world of high-tech solutions to most every problem, there are plenty of options for staying informed of the latest news in this breaking story. With the tag line, “when the smoke goes up, you’ll know what’s going down”, the website popealarm.com<\/a> is on top of the latest developments. At the website you can sign up to receive instant notification of the election by either text or email.<\/p>\n

For the ultimate in simplicity you can visit istherewhitesmoke.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or you can download an app for your smart phone. Some of the apps provide biographic background on the candidates. All promise to keep you up to the minute with breaking news. Not to be outdone, the Pontifical Council for Social Communication<\/a> has released the Pope App. Before you know it the Vatican will have its own YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that the Catholic Church is in the process of selecting a new Pope. The Church has been slow to embrace certain changes, e.g. women priests and same-sex marriage, but they have not been as slow to adapt to new communication media. The recently retire pope, Pope Benedict XVI (@pontifex), became the … <\/p>\n

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