Did you hear? The pope’s on Twitter. That’s right, the veritable vanguard of God’s holy word writ live has taken to the tweetstream to—well, we’re not sure what he plans to do with it.

But he sure caused quite a stir, racking up 600,000 followers on his very first day, all of whom we can only assume waited with bated breath to hear—er, read—what His Holiness would beam across the interwebs, straight into their news streams.