The Catholic Church has gone digital for it's young pilgrims attending this year's World Youth Day event in Sydney.

The Church today said that World Youth Day and the Pope (who is attending) would send out daily prayer messages via text messaging and create a Catholic-style social-networking platform.

There will also be a digital prayer wall in Sydney where pilgrims can ask for attention of particular issues.

"For the week of World Youth Day, while the young people are here, those who've given their mobile phone numbers to us will receive a message each day," World Youth Day's Bishop Anthony Fisher said.

"There's going to be digital prayer walls at the event sites where the young people can put up their own messages asking people to pray for their intentions," he said.

"There's also going to be a social networking site, a kind of Catholic Facebook if you like."

The technology is all part of the Church's bid to connect with a younger generation in the face of falling church attendances.

The Church is also facing significant competition from other evangelical style Churches, including Hillsong.

Hillsong Church has long pushed the use of technology within it's organisation, including high-tech video and audio fit-outs.