”I’m getting 200 new friends every day,” the cardinal said. ”You have to go where the people are and if the people are on Facebook you go there too” according to Zenit

During the synod of bishops it was suggested that Benedict XVI set up a blog to communicate online. It’s an indication of how important the Internet is today when it comes to evangelization.

Just after that came the news that Naples Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe had set up a profile on the social networking site Facebook, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Oct. 28.

Cardinal Sepe’s observation about needing to go where young people are is backed up by data from a United States survey. In the group of young people born after 1984, only about 33% attend church on a typical weekend.