Over 1,000 Roman Catholic priests are convening in Rome for a social media summit to explore strategies for integrating social media into their missions. The event, part of the Church’s Jubilee Year celebrated every 25 years, will cover best practices and pitfalls to avoid in promoting the Catholic faith to a new generation.

The summit will occur over the next few days, as reported by The Daily Star.

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Father Cosimo Schena, the priest of San Francesco church in the southern Italian city of Brindisi has become well known as “the poet of God’s love” after publishing spiritual poems across his social media accounts. He has amassed more than 450,000 followers on Instagram alone.

…Others expected to attend include Father Giuseppe Fusari, a tattooed priest in the northern town of Brescia who loves bodybuilding, plus Stefano Maria Bordignon, a friar known online as FraStefano, who uses YouTube to comment on the gospel.

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