Pope tells priests - get to grips with blogs, web vids

Ha Ha ha

[Benedict has warned priests that simply sticking up a website with mass times and a plea for jumble sale volunteers wasn't enough.]

They still haven't got the hang of old style comms. Traveled 20 miles the other weekend to photograph some stained glass in one, and found it locked, no indication of where you could get in touch with a keyholder either. Justa sign say "Confesions by appointment" perhaps one has to do it by prayer.

The Anglicans were no better out 3 out of 5 were locked despite signs saying open every day.

Pick up Thy Mouse, and Talk,Talk the Walk ?

"The Pope has ordered his priests to get more active on the net to spread the word of God, while warning them not to get carried away by the false idols of the digital world."

Step into the Virtual World from a land of closed cloisters and frocks and funny hats and what will be Rendered and Delivered is AIRadical Fundamental Existentialism to Enhance the Long March So Cruelly Halted in the Exclusive Condescension of Self Exaltation and Patent Pagan Falsehoods.

And all are Most Welcome into ITs Spaces and Strange Places for the Fool and the Bigot Deny Themselves Entry and are Left to just Howl at the Perly Gates with their Vacuous Yells Lost in the Clamour.

I suppose CyberSpace eventually was bound to be targetted with an old style virus.

umm

what is "media savvy" in Latin? Guess I'll have to check with Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini--but their latest is about Ban Ki Moon.

has possibilities

There are possibilities. The Old Testament has the makings of a cracking video game, Samson demolishing the temple, parting of the Red Sea, walls of Jericho falling, that bloke getting the tent peg through his skull and stuff. Onan will be a bit tricky though.

Gotta read the book.

Codex means book. The early church (mostly Jewish) developed the Scroll into the Book.

Monks invented Illuminations.

It's taken nearly 50 years for Electronic Displays to get from being Glass (CRT. LCD) & paper (Teletype, Printer) Scroll based to page based interfaces allown simple annotation and random access.

As % of Population

Worst Abusers: People in Family & Friends etc.

Priests as % of Priests and Strangers are way below.

Not fair to say Church supressed Bible translations

There were from time to time Bible translations the Church didn't allow cause they were bad translations, but before the reformation the Bible was available in many languages including English. Many people think that because Tynedale had the first printed Bible in English (actually New Testament and part of the Old Testament), that there were no English Bibles. There were, just not printed yet. They were all laboriously hand-copied, (which is of course the reason for the chaining of the Bible, both in Catholic and protestant churches in the time of the reformation, so it wouldn't get stolen, it represented the equivalent in work of that of a whole village for a year.) The Church encouraged translation into all languages, but insisted on good translations. Tynedale in particular had what seemed to be deliberate anti-clerical mis-translations. No one today would consider using it, though it is available online now! It wasn't until the King James and the Douay-Rheims that a good English translation was in print. Today the NIV is considered the most faithful to early Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek texts.