...how we've moved on from the times of Galileo. Who gives a crap what these dresswearing freaks say! Try blessing the use of contraception in third world countries and help stop the spread of AIDS you fucking useless bunch of inbreds.

"In dialogue with others we need to be wary of the inane chatter that can go on in the digital world which does nothing to promote growth in understanding and untolerance"

Huh? "Untolerance"? You want to grow "untolerance" via communication?

...that's scammers, trolls, moderators, cam whores, WoW players, and 4chan then...

"In dialogue with others we need to be wary of the inane chatter that can go on in the digital world which does nothing to promote growth in understanding and untolerance," he thundered.

Untolerant inane chatter on the internetweb 2.0 ? I don't believe it !

I believe in Jimmy Wales, social intelligence, the loch ness monster, Aliens, copper braclets for rheumatism, Intelligent Design, honest politicians...

I need to take my meds now.

errr, is the church promoting untolerance ? is that a p.c. version of intolerance ?

which I suppose puts it on a par with God.

will not be using the internet if the vatican beatify it!

I enjoy using it as a godless zone for us heathen sinners!

"In the beginning there was pornography, and it was difficult to obtain. The masses attended the service stations and the railway siding and there was little. But lo, the internet was born and pornography was available to the masses in throngs! And it was good, and bad, and everything in between!"

Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy intarwebs.

Thy data come.

Thy processing be done,

On the intarwebs as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bits.

And forgive us our adult site visits,

As we forgive those who hack us.

And lead us not into service outages,

But deliver us from corporate content blockers.

For thine is the intarwebs,

and the data,

and the bandwidth,

for ever and ever.

Amen.

The internet is a lot more real than most religions. /flame

"Father Fredrico Lombardi, SJ, the Vatican's head of communications, marked the Church's upcoming Communications Day with a lengthy speech"

Is it just co-incidence that that quote is just two chars shorter than the max for a tweet?

I'll bet the actual speech needed more than one blog post though.

...endorses Pr0n

The flasher mac in the corner

You owe me a new keyboard. This one has suddenly been filled with tea :-).

"Lombardi might want to work first in Scotland, where the Bishop of Paisley has decided to mark Communications Day by warning against the danger of social networking replacing real relationships."

I fail to see the conflict here. All advancements can be use for good as well as evil purposes. They are merely embracing the use for "good" purposes, but warning about the potential bad influences.

Coffee: 99p

Screen: £189

Keyboard: £12.74

"Hallowed be thy intarwebs": Priceless

That's gotta go on a Reg t-shirt.

Religion and the net?

They just want to control another communications channel before their fairy story is fully exposed as the greatest shonk ever told.

Except not even the Catholics listen to the Vatican anyway, so who cares what they say. Well, at least in the largest Catholic country in the world (Brazil), where I went to Catholic school all my pre-college life, nobody does. Maybe some old people do, but then again they don't go on the intarwebs... An example: an ex-girlfriend of mine here in the USA, very Catholic. She had no clue what the Vatican's position on evolutionary biology was (she is a microbiologist, I'm an evo biologist). She was surprised to learn what they think of it (they accept the science completely, and then have their mental contortions to reconcile reality with their superstitions, but nonetheless... that's better than the fundamentalist knuckle-draggers). I, an atheist, know more about the Vatican's positions than she did.

Anyway, best were the Google ads displayed on this story's page:

Christian Dating Sites?

Catholic Singles Meet

El Reg will get lambasted by a certain Scottish Bishop, maybe?