Vatican Struggles to Grasp the Internet
November 17th, 2009Source: Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY, November 13, 2009: Surprised when an ultra-traditionalist bishop whom he had welcomed back into the Catholic Church turned out to have been a fervent and public Holocaust-denier, Pope Benedict XVI declared in March that he had “learned the lesson” that the Vatican would have to “pay greater attention” to the Internet.Eight months later, the Vatican is now been doing just that, with a four-day conference (Nov. 12-15) on the “Internet culture and church communication” — or how to evangelize in the information age.
