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Pope Benedict calls for Internet evangelists

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Continuing the trend of a more Internet-savvy Vatican:

Pope Benedict XVI is calling upon young people to evangelize using the Internet as the Church prepares to celebrate the World Day for Social Communications.

At the end of his Wednesday general audience, the Holy Father launched an appeal asking that cyberspace be a place that promotes a “culture of respect, dialogue and authentic friendship where the values of truth, harmony and understanding can flourish.”

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Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!” the Pope urged.

“Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God’s infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!”

The World Day for Social Communications will be held on Sunday, May 24 this year.

It just figures it would fall on a Sunday; that’s like the only day I don’t blog. Well, that and Saturday.

Still, this is an agreeable initiative, although I hope that any Catholic youth who choose to take up the call will do so with…ah…a degree of intelligence and tactfulness that I have observed to be, in general, lacking among their evangelical counterparts.

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I started blogging back in 2004 -- in May, if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. Not that I remember the exact day. To be honest, I didn't take it that seriously then; it was a fun distraction, but nothing more. That all changed, I think, once the Danish cartoons were published, and the assault on the right to freedom of expression became very visible. With the recent issues in Canada concerning the "human rights" commissions, the gravity of the matter has only increased, and my interest in blogging has increased right along with it. I used to blog at a domain called Time Immortal, but it seemed to be the right time for a change -- there's been a lot of that in my life of late. Hence this blog: a fresh start, and proof positive that I won't shut up even if I get shut down once in a while.