Here’s an article from catholicnews.com:
Evangelization in 21st century: Arkansas bishop joins Facebook
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNS) — The days of Facebook only being for college and high school students are long gone. Little Rock Bishop Anthony B. Taylor is believed to be the first U.S. Catholic bishop to join the popular Web site. As of Dec. 11, he had 894 friends worldwide and counting. Started in 2004, Facebook rivals MySpace as one of the largest social networking sites on the Internet. Shortly after being ordained as Little Rock’s bishop in June, Bishop Taylor said he was told a fan club had been created about him on Facebook. When he went online to look at the page, he realized he had to sign up to see it, so he did. Not long after posting his information and a photo, the word spread fast and before long he had more friend requests and group invitations than he could keep up with. “I want to be available and accessible to everybody in the diocese,” Bishop Taylor said of his membership on Facebook. “This is a way to be present to the younger people of the diocese.”
While you’re checking out Bishop Taylor’s profile and scanning for the Benedict XVI fan page, be sure to check out AI’s page on Facebook as well and become a fan of your favorite school of theology/ministry!
As a new Facebrook user I am delighted to see Arkansas Bishop Anthony B. Taylor here…kudos to him for his ministry for the poor and his work for human rights of aliens.
At St. Mark’s in Monticello, I have taught religious education to the children of immigrants and am always impressed at their desire to learn and to share their culture with others as well as their language.
Our community that lacks the workers needed to accommodate the needs of an aging state population are blessed to integrate them into our area.
Bishop Taylor’s first pastoral letter, “I Was A Stranger And You Welcomed Me…”
and our study group in the parish have spurred me to join the immigration discussion in this nation and to do what I can to see that national policy does is established on fact and not fiction.