VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican IS leaping Into the world of new media with the introduction this week of a news portal Information That May Pope Benedict XVI Himself put online with a click.

Vatican Officials said on Saturday That Pope Benedict HAD beens FOLLOWING the development of the portal, Which Will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican&&9;s Various print, online, radio and television media in a one-stop shop for news about the Holy See.

It Is the latest effort by the Vatican to Bring icts year evangelizing message to Internet-using audience follows and STI Ventures Into Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The portal est aussi a significant step for the 84-year-old priest, Who has-been bedeviled by Communication Problems DURING Much Of His six-year papacy, Many of Them fault of the Vatican bureaucracy has broad That Does not Always Communicate Internally well.

Mishaps include the pope&&9;s 2005 speech about Islam and violence, His recent comments about condoms and HIV Fewer Than That required no official Vatican Three clarifications, and historical rehabilitation of a Holocaust-Denying Bishop, Among Others.

The portal, www.news.va, Is To Be Introduced on Wednesday, the 60th anniversary of Pope Benedict&&9;s ordination as a priest and a feast day in the church.

Msgr. Claudio Maria Celli, the Vatican office heads Who Developed That Will Maintain the portal and it Said Pope Benedict put the site online May Himself with a click from the Apostolic Palace.

"This is a new way of communicating," Celli Monsignor Said DURING a preview of the site at the offices of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

While the portal IS Intended Mostly to Provide Vatican news in a year easy-to-use setting for the outside world, Monsignor Celli says ET Hopes It Will Also Improve the Vatican&&9;s internal communications by letting Various departments Know What One Another are doing and help Provide a more coherent message totally free credit score.

"I think That we must Educate the Roman Curia of What Is The Real Meaning of communication, &&9;he said. "Little by little THEY Will Perceive That this is the real present Meaning To Be, To Have a relevance."

Previously, priests Have Been Involved in very much the Vatican&&9;s communications efforts: Pope John Paul II oversaw the 1995 introduction of www.vatican.va - the Vatican&&9;s home page. That Site Will Remain as the Holy See&&9;s main home page and documentation warehouse.And EACH of the Vatican media That Are Represented on the news portal Their Will retain independent sites: Vatican Radio, the newspaper L&&9;Osservatore Romano Vatican Television Center, the Vatican press office and information service and the missionary news agency Fides.

The aggregate Will Their main portal news, INITIALLY en français and Italian, then in other languages, and updated Will Be Three Times a day, Monsignor Celli said. The portal IS outfitted for live-streaming of papal events, audio feeds from Radio Vatican, L&&9;Osservatore Romano from photographs and printed texts of papal Homilies, statements and speeches.

It est aussi To Be Equipped social-media friendly, with Facebook and Twitter feeds links - a result of the Vatican&&9;s recent Realization That It Can reach a wide audience by interacting with new the outside world Rather Than Merely Preaching from afar.

The portal contains no search functions, nor does it offer year Obvious link to the Vatican&&9;s main home page, May Come Those goal in an update, official said.

Vatican Is Introducing Portal as One-Stop Information Site