From Sunday, it has been revealed,
he will also be tweeting in Latin. Within hours of the announcement, the Twitter username @pontifex_ln had nearly 2,000 followers. Countering the scepticism of those who suggest the universal Church's official language might not be an obvious tool for spontaneous exchange and debate, Manlio Simonetti, a professor in Christian history, told
L'Osservatore Romano: "Latin … is very well suited to the brevity necessary on new social networks, even more so than English."