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Pope Benedict XVI will send religious text messages to thousands of young Catholics when he attends World Youth Day in Australia, organisers say.
The move aims to help the Pope connect with his technology-loving audience.
Digital prayer walls will also be set up and a web-based social networking site established, organisers say.
The co-ordinating bishop, Anthony Fisher, said that the event would be "the most innovative World Youth Day to date".
"We wanted to make WYD08 a unique experience by using new ways to connect with today's tech-savvy youth," he said in a statement.
Attendees would receive daily inspirational text messages and religious teaching would be broadcast on the web, he said.
The six-day event will be held in Sydney in mid-July.
It expected to attract more than 200,000 young Catholics to the Australian city.

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The Lord's Prayer

A salesman from KFC walked up to the Pope and offers him a million dollars if he would change "The Lord's Prayer" from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken." The Pope refused his offer.

Two weeks later, the man offered the pope 10 million dollars to change it from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken" and again the Pope refused the man's generous offer. Another week later, the man offered the Pope 20 million dollars and finally the Pope accepted. The following day, the Pope said to all his officials, "I have some good news and some bad news. 'The good news is, that we have just received a check for 20 million dollars. The bad news is, we lost the Hovis account!'''

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Pope backs football life lessons - City Fan?

Pope Benedict XVI says football has a crucial role to play in teaching young people the important lessons of life - honesty, solidarity and fraternity.
He raised concerns about corruption damaging the image of the so-called Beautiful Game but said younger generations could learn from it.

The Pope was meeting Italian football professionals and a delegation from the lower division Serie D.

The German-born pontiff is said to be a fan of Bavarian giants Bayern Munich.

"I'd like the game of football to be a vehicle for the education of the values of honesty, solidarity and fraternity, especially among younger generations," he told the footballing pilgrims.

But Italian football has been embarrassed by a string of investigations into corruption and match-fixing allegations in recent years.

The League has been suspended twice in successive seasons as the Federation tries to combat a spate of hooliganism.

New ethics

The BBC's Christian Fraser in Rome says the less glamorous clubs have been taking a bigger role in grooming Italy's next generation of talent at a time when the bigger clubs are dropping youth schemes in favour of big money transfers.

It is the second time this season that the Vatican has turned its attention to football. In October, the Vatican sporting club announced it was joining forces with AC Ancona, a team in the second division, Serie B.

Since then, they have introduced a new code of ethics. There are now cheaper seats for families and club players who were booked for unsporting behaviour are subject to tough new sanctions.

The Pope, whose predecessor John Paul II played in goal in his youth, says he hopes the change of direction at Ancona will serve as an example to others.