Pope to Church leaders: Time to get tweeting

Pope Benedict XVI has told Catholic Church leaders they must engage with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter if they want to spread the faith to the next generation.

The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, used his annual message on social communications to stress the potential of social media for the Church as it struggles to keep followers and attract new ones amid religious apathy, competition from other churches and scandals that have driven the faithful away.