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1. Mark 06/29/2011 - 4:34 pm

   “So, I can get all Ten Commandments on just one tablet?”

2. Alan C. Mitchell 06/29/2011 - 4:35 pm  subscriber

   “If I tap this button, we will have a smaller, purer Church?”

3. Jimmy Mac 06/29/2011 - 4:52 pm  subscriber

   “Now I can pump out a book a month!”

4. Mark Jameson 06/29/2011 - 5:01 pm  subscriber

   “Hey look! I just poked Hans Kung!”

5. Cathleen Kaveny 06/29/2011 - 5:04 pm  contributor

   “Who are those people on my screensaver?”

6. Gerelyn 06/29/2011 - 5:28 pm

   Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum.

7. Margaret Steinfels 06/29/2011 - 5:38 pm  subscriber

   “Will anyone read this?”

8. Ann Olivier 06/29/2011 - 5:51 pm  subscriber

   “Does it bite?”

   “We’ll see.”

9. Dan Cosacchi 06/29/2011 - 6:50 pm

   “Does this thing have an imprimatur?”

10. David Nickol 06/29/2011 - 7:00 pm  subscriber

    “It’s a miracle!”

11. Irene Baldwin 06/29/2011 - 7:05 pm

    “Gee, I can get Angry Birds”

12. David Ivanov 06/29/2011 - 7:24 pm

    “Follow me as I follow Christ on Twitter”

13. Felapton 06/29/2011 - 7:26 pm

    “Res edax temporum”

14. ed gleason 06/29/2011 - 8:53 pm

    “no paper Papa’

15. George D 06/29/2011 - 10:16 pm  subscriber

    “It doesn’t have Flash”

16. Bill Mazzella 06/29/2011 - 11:00 pm  subscriber

    “Will this help get Jason Berry off my back?”

17. Isabelle Andrews 06/30/2011 - 12:35 am  subscriber

    “Trust me guys; I Know what I’m doing.”

18. unagidon 06/30/2011 - 6:55 am  contributor

    “First thing I’m going to do is help this poor Nigerian widow.”

19. william collier 06/30/2011 - 9:44 am  subscriber

    “That’s triple points for e-s-c-h-a-t-o-l-o-g-i-c-a-l. I told you that no one in the Curia can beat me at online Scrabble!”

20. Cathleen Kaveny 06/30/2011 - 11:49 am  contributor

    Seriously. . . . who are the people in his screensaver, at the very beginning of the video? Can anyone tell?

21. Gerelyn 06/30/2011 - 11:57 am

    (Maybe that’s a picture of his parents with him and his brother. Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of his and his brother’s ordination.)

22. Gerelyn 06/30/2011 - 12:02 pm

    http://bangortobobbio.blogspot.com/2010/05/marriage-is-truly-instrument-of.html

    (A picture of his parents with their children.)

23. Sturgeon 06/30/2011 - 12:11 pm

    “I’m going to spend some time on YouTube watching cat videos, but first I probably should Google ‘Richard Williamson …’”

24. william collier 06/30/2011 - 12:24 pm  subscriber

    I believe Gerelyn is correct that the picture includes the Pope’s parents and the two sons who became priests. It appears another family member is also in the photo. I recall seeing this photo in then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s book “Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977.”

25. John Page 06/30/2011 - 12:26 pm  subscriber

    The picture appears to be a photograph of the Ratzinger family — parents, Joseph and Maria, and their three children, Georg (monsignor), Joseph (pope), and Maria. Maria, from Joseph’s early years as a professor, was in charge of his household. She continued in that role when Cardinal Ratzinger went from Munich to Rome in 1982. She died in Rome in, I believe, 1991, at a fairly early age. The Pope has no nieces or nephews.

26. Joseph Kelly 06/30/2011 - 1:05 pm

    From Twitter back to the first papal audio.

    http://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/leo-xiii-sings-ave-maria/

27. Claire 06/30/2011 - 1:35 pm

    “Do not be afraid”

28. David Gibson 06/30/2011 - 2:00 pm  subscriber  contributor

    “140 characters? Almost enough to make a Curia.”

    (I am indeed impressed by the wit of our commenting crowd.)

29. Cathleen Kaveny 06/30/2011 - 2:56 pm  contributor

    Thanks for the info on the picture!
    If I were running the photo op I would have gotten him the white iPad2 plus the red cover, to match his outfit.

30. David Nickol 06/30/2011 - 3:06 pm  subscriber

    “Your Holiness, I would be more confident you’d catch on to the new technology if you weren’t still trying to figure out the joke about Et Cum Spiri-2-2-0.”

    [This makes me remember when I was a kid in the 1950s, Pius XII blessed the children of the world in a radio broadcast. They piped it through the PA system, generally used for routine announcements, to our classrooms, and we all knelt for the blessing. I think I was in second grade. One of my fellow classmates, somewhat awestruck, wanted to know if the pope was in the principal's office.]

31. Jonathan Davis 06/30/2011 - 9:34 pm

    “So, if I just press this red button, the whole world will reset to pre-reformation time?”

32. Joseph Gannon 07/01/2011 - 10:34 am  subscriber

    “What have I wrought”

33. Anthony Andreass 07/03/2011 - 10:45 pm  subscriber

    In my book, this is the winner:

    “First thing I’m going to do is help this poor Nigerian widow.”

    That caption is worthy of a New Yorker cartoon

34. Gerelyn 07/10/2011 - 12:31 pm

    Agree with Anthony.

    Who won, Gvant? What was the prize?

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