This article arises from a petition I have made some friends about the good and bad of facebook and other social networking sites, to which reference was made in the notice of Advent of the Neocatechumenal. It is true that there are social networks are more bores for teenagers, the memos in my opinion ( tuenti, without going further), as is that if some parents might see the photos that her daughters hung on the Net as public domain they would stop the heart of the scare ... But going to a slightly more detailed analysis.
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Obviously, what I say? Yes, that is fine to be cautious and all that. Even the best media can be used for evil purposes (and even without being late, being already perverse ways.) But then to say that social networks are per se incompatible with the Catholic faith or being a Christian I think that is a stretch too wide ... Can you imagine you to Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder and father of monasticism in the West, burning and prohibiting all kinds of books for the simple reason that some unscrupulous bad copies were circulating among ordinary people? But that was not what he did Benito ( read his life, written by his friend and fellow St. Gregory the Great ). Without the cultural work performed by the Benedictine monastic libraries, heritage and the heritage of Europe today would sit in ashes. If Christians today we abandoned every wind of teaching the public that so freely flows through social networks, what will become of so many defenseless readers to much confusion and misinformation? If social networks are bad, by the same token, today that would prohibit the use, for allegedly Christian so many other social media: television, print, digital media, blogs ... Yet this is not way which is the last and most recent teaching of the popes, especially Benedict XVI, who commands us face the challenge of establishing a fruitful dialogue with the world in which we live . Only then can we confront and defeat many evil means that we are eating area, there where no good sower scattered seed, sow thistles of other pornography, slander, defamation and slander. A few days ago the Vatican celebrated fifteen years of internet presence of the Vatican in . I think at this from the Neocatechumenal has made a mistake (careful: do not talk about all Road, but I heard some voices), a childish error, especially if we sin demonizing everything that surrounds us. If someone is so weak as to not be able to connect to the internet and go directly to a web of pornography, it is clear that that someone has a problem ... but not be one hundred percent demonize the entire contents of the Network That would be like banning the film in its entirety because there are films that are "immoral," but there not also works of art ? Exactly the same happens with music: music is satanic, for example, but there is also the Magnificat sublime as one hears in Notre Dame de Paris led the rotunda and sincere conversion until before hearing their early stages was an atheist: Paul Claudel . Examples are hundreds. Without further ado, I invite urged to read the important document The Church and Internet , published as soon as the pontificate of John Paul II beatified.
Finally, as you may know, a major concern of Benedict XVI has been and is to bring the message of the new Areopagus Gospel. To this end, we have been calling successive Communications Conference. Not to tire, leave the link below each of the past six years (except 2008):
- Social Communications Day 2004
- Social Communications Day 2005
- Social Communications Day 2006
- Social Communications Day 2007
- Social Communications Day 2009
- Social Communications Day 2010
Although the theme of each of the years is changing, the common axis is easy to point out: apply new technologies to support and spread the Word of God. We, as Christians, and with all those people of good will and good conscience, we must ensure that we win a field that more than ours, is of the Word must be proclaimed. Look, look and see that by the fact that there are many websites that manage those infamous Catholic sites pornography, pedophilia and all kinds of violence are not far behind. Rather his audacity to dare to make them all. Conclude with the words of Benedict XVI, in his message for the Day XLIV World Communications -year 2010 -: "The priest and pastoral ministry in the digital world : new media at the service of the Word " Solemnity of the Ascension, May 16, 2010. There, our Supreme Pontiff said:
No we employ the strategy prude or an ostrich. Courage and parresía, knowledgeable of the hazards, but not as prudish headlocked them to a world-internet- that is unstoppable. Closing our eyes to this reality is no less sterile than the task that mocks the classic Castilian proverb, which now allow me to paraphrase: 'Do not want to put the tide' ... That we eat with your feet.
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