Catholic Church To Canonize Two Prior Popes
WHITFIELD: Catholics around world are preparing for historic event tomorrow. For the first time ever, the church are canonize two Popes on the same day and they're pulling out all the stops online to bring young believers in on the experience. Here's Jonathan Mann.</s>JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR (voice-over): Thousands of Catholics will crowd St. Peter's square for Sunday's canonization ceremony. Millions more around the world will see it on TV. And for the first time for such an event the Vatican is reaching out online, making the event available through a dedicated Web site, twopesaints.org. There is also a facebook page, a twitter feed, an Instagram account, and a You Tube channel, all of them available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Polish. Church officials say they're making an unprecedented effort to reach out to a younger audience.</s>MONSIGNOR WALTER INSERO, COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR, DIOCESE OF ROME (through translator): We believe apart from the traditional media and the TV, we should also reach out to young people. And we need to reach out to them using the language that youth today use. Also, seeing that these two Pope saints, were very youthful in their way of communication.</s>MANN: Helps by the popularity of the new Pope, the Vatican has slowly expanded the social media presence with millions of new followers flocking to Pope Francis on twitter and facebook. Tourists in St. Peter's square say it's a move in the right direction.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's definitely a very positive thing for a church to be interacting a lot better with modern communications.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And the younger people, I think, will get more involved.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Younger people will get involved, exactly.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We will miss the canonization but are very much looking forward to seeing it on the internet and on television because it brings the Catholic Church closer to everyone.</s>MANN: So even Catholics who can't be there in person will find the canonization is just a click away. Jonathan Mann, CNN.</s>WHITFIELD: And you of course can watch this ceremony live beginning at 4:00 a.m. eastern time tomorrow on CNN. All right, a new drone, one that can dive even deeper could join the search for that missing Malaysia airliner. We'll tell you about Remus 6000.