{"id":7564,"date":"2009-03-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/16\/the-growing-importance-of-the-internet-for-religious-leaders\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:00:00","slug":"the-growing-importance-of-the-internet-for-religious-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/16\/the-growing-importance-of-the-internet-for-religious-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Importance of The Internet For Religious Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">RNS<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">VATICAN, March 17, 2009: For the past two months, the Catholic Church has been overcome by one fairly straightforward question: Why didn&#8217;t the pope know that the  bishop he welcomed back into the church had extremist views that would cause so much embarrassment? Last week, the pope had an answer. He hadn&#8217;t Googled it. &#8220;I have been told,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI wrote to the world&#8217;s Catholic bishops on March 10, &#8220;that consulting the information available on the Internet would have made it possible to perceive the problem early on.<\/p>\n<p>Information, today, is available far beyond the mainstream media sources. Personal websites, YouTube and independent bloggers share a forum that is as visible as their Google rank, analyzing each positive action and quickly denouncing missteps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNS VATICAN, March 17, 2009: For the past two months, the Catholic Church has been overcome by one fairly straightforward,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}