For those of us who steer clear of religion wherever possible, it's hard to understand the acres of coverage being to the death of Pope John Paul II at the weekend.
But despite my feelings towards religious pomp and the politics of belief, it's interesting to see how some priests are taking on technology as a way of spreading their ideas. Ben Hammersley wrote a little piece for us last year which mentioned Biblepod, but it's not the only example.
One of our readers has pointed us in the direction of CatholicInsider, a podcasting site run by Father Roderick Vonhögen, Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Right now Roderick is in Rome and podcasting with alarming regularity about the reaction to the Pope's death. If you can get past his slightly over-dramatic delivery (he's a Catholic priest speaking in a foreign language, after all) then it's an interesting experiment from the ground, talking to people in the Vatican and exploring what it all means.
