Italian cardinal is a hit on YouTube

ONE OF THE VATICAN'S most senior cardinals has become a hit on the internet after using YouTube, the video-sharing website, as his pulpit during Lent.
Using the website, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the 73-year-old Archbishop of Milan, responds by video to a number of questions e-mailed to his diocese. He prefaces his question-and-answer session with a catechesis for Lent.
The success of the first video, which was downloaded more than 16,000 times in just a few days, has delighted the Church. More than 12000 people a day are now e-mailing questions for the cardinal to answer. He intends to post a new video every Friday until Easter.
The charismatic Cardinal Tettamanzi — always a firm believer in dialogue — is one of the most liberal figures in the Vatican and is possibly the leading Italian candidate to become the next pope.