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Pope Benedict calls for Internet evangelists

Kenneth Hynek21st May 2009Religion, Catholicism, Religion, Holy Days and Feast Days, The Sciences, The Interwebs
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Continuing the trend of a more -savvy :

is calling upon young people to evangelize using the Internet as prepares to celebrate the .

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.”

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

“Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of ’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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