Pope Benedict Beats Justin Bieber at Twitter

OK, maybe the world really is ending: In addition to comparing same-sex marriage to communism, The Vatican’s official newspaper published a story today to announce that…Pope Benedict just achieved a higher re-tweet rate than Justin Bieber (thereby winning social media for the second time this month).

While Benedict’s two million followers (1.2 million in English alone) can’t quite compare to the 32 million Beliebers on Twitter, The Vatican wants the world to know that:

“50 percent of the pope’s followers had re-tweeted his first tweet on December 12 while only 0.7

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