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Shepherds of Church reaching out to ‘sheep’ on social media

Pope Francis has said that shepherds “should have the smell of the sheep.”
For some bishops and their dioceses, that means going on Twitter.
In the Archdiocese of Edmonton, a 2016 effort by Archbishop Richard Smith led to the archdiocese increasing its focus on social media.
“We want to use Twitter as an evangelization tool and a means of communication,” said Lincoln Ho, the social media specialist for the archdiocese. “We’re trying to reach out to the youth audience.”
He mentioned that since the archdiocese covers a large geographic area — central Alberta — the Twitter account gives them another method to broadcast information

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