ROME — His election may have been announced with white smoke, but Pope Leo XIV will communicate with the Catholic faithful on X and Instagram, the Vatican said yesterday.
Robert Prevost was a regular user of X, formerly Twitter, before last Thursday becoming the first ever US pope, unafraid to tackle prickly political issues.
Now, as pontiff, he will inherit the official @Pontifex accounts on X used by his predecessor Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI before him.
Published in nine languages — English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, Arabic, and Latin — they have a total of 52 million followers, the Vatican said.
