Pope Francis has Social Media Interns?

With the election of Pope Francis as head of the Catholic church earlier this March, many people, Catholics and non-Catholics wondered if the new Pope would create a Twitter account as previous Pope Benedict had. The answer came March 13th minutes after Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina stepped out as the newly elected Pope.

"HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM" (meaning, We have Pope Francis, in Latin) read the tweet from the resurrected @Pontifex Twitter account that was disabled shortly after former Pope Benedict announced his retirement. Since then, the twitter account has been consistently updated by Pope Francis's team. 

Soon after Pope Benedict announced his retirement, Villanova undergrads Sean Hudgins and Danielle McMonagle were hired as social media interns. 

Read the original article and interview from Mashable. 

http://mashable.com/2013/03/18/pope-francis-social-media/