I read with great interest, the Holy Father's message about the Internet. Those of us who use the Web regularly are only too aware of its dangers, and the amount of nasty, sordid or downright repellent material which is only a click away at any particular moment.
Having said that, there are also so many wonderful sites which open the doors to learning and discovery, and where we can learn almost anything we might ever desire to know. It is undoubtedly an incredibly useful invention which has helped to turn the world into the proverbial Global Village.
So let us, as Pope Benedict asks, do everything to maintain it as a way of bringing art, philosophy, education, science, Faith, into every home - of bring light instead of darkness, and a sense of humanity to what could so easily become an arid wasteland of cruelty and indifference.
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From: Vatican Radio
"The dangers of homologation and control, of intellectual and moral relativism are also increasing, as already recognizable in the decline of critical spirit,in truth reduced to a game of opinions, in the many forms of degradation and humiliation of the intimacy of the person"
Thus said the Pope we see, a "spiritual pollution" that brings us to no longer "look one another in the face”. So we must “overcome those collective dynamics that risk reducing people to "soulless bodies, objects of exchange and consumption”. The media must become a “humanizing factor”, focused "on promoting the dignity of persons and peoples". Only then, will "the epochal times we are experiencing be rich and fertile in new opportunities":
"Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea facing into the deep with the same passion that has governed the ship of the Church for two thousand years. Rather than for, albeit necessary, technical resources, we want to qualify ourselves by living in the digital world with a believer’s heart, helping to give a soul to the Internet’s incessant flow of communication".
See: Vatican Radio website:
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/index.asp
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