Pope Receives E-Mails

Yahoo! News reports 56,191 e-mails [were] sent in the first 48 hours that Benedict's Vatican e-mail has been operational, the Vatican said Friday. In English, the address is benedictxvi@vatican.va. [Other addresses exist for email in Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese] Of the e-mails received so far, the bulk have been messages of congratulations written in English — 30,844 at last count. Italian well-wishers were next on the list with 12,621, followed by 6,024 messages in Spanish, 2,961 in Benedict's native tongue, German, 2,286 in Portuguese and 1,455 in French.