GodTube?

Seems the Vatican is getting a channel on the popular video sharing site YouTube. Details are sparse on what content the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church has in mind, but a quick look around YouTube should give him a few ideas...

* A video blog... wouldn't you like seeing the Pope hunched over in a chair, trying to stay in the frame of the web camera on his laptop lamenting about everything from the last movie he saw (probably Slumdog Millionaire, seems like everyone's seen that one but me) or just something that happened at work that day... I know I would be glued to the screen.

* Mashups... mix some pope videos with popular, but lyrically empty pop songs and watch the view counts soar... and I can't imagine ANY record company sending a cease and desist order against the Holy See. But be prepared for the unauthorized mashup of the Pope and Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl".

* Clips and Trailers... "This Week in Church..." a quick cut video (but without those goofy 80s style tilted angles) of some snippets of a reading, part of the sermon, and the happy faces of all those who just received communion...

Just a few ideas, and I'm sure the Vatican has even farther reaching plans, like a church in Second Life, or a Twitter account...