Pope Benedict Warns of Potential Alienation with 'Social Networking' Web Sites...

These Last Days News - February 16, 2011

Pope Benedict Warns of Potential Alienation with 'Social Networking' Web Sites...

"My children, you must separate what is important and what is not. The spirit is your eternal flame. You will guide by it, My children. Nourish your spirit and not your human bodies. Too much time is spent in amusement of the human body, seeking entertainment that is being created by satan to poison your minds. As I have counseled you in the past, your medias of entertainment are polluted. Your children must be protected against this pollution in pornography and exploitation of sex." - Our Lady, June 16, 1977

Catholic Online reported on January 26, 2011:

Pope Benedict XVI gave his continued support to social networking this week, praising its potential -- but warned that online friendships are no substitute for real human contact. The 83-year-old pontiff gave a succinct message whose title was worthy of an Internet tweet: "Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age."

The Pope said the possibilities of social networks offered "a great opportunity", but warned of the risks of depersonalization, alienation, self-indulgence and the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones.

"It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives," Benedict said in the message for the Catholic Church's World Day of Communications.

Benedict urged social network users to ask themselves "Who is my 'neighbor' in this new world?" He also warned of the danger of always being available online but being "less present to those whom we encounter in our everyday life."

Such tools as Facebook, "the new media," "urgently demand a serious reflection on the significance of communication in the digital age," he said.

Benedict sprinkled his message with terms such as "sharing," "friends," and "profiles" - but did not mention Facebook by name.

While social networking can help "dialogue, exchange, solidarity and the creation of positive relations" but he also offered a list of warnings.

"Entering cyberspace can be a sign of an authentic search for personal encounters with others, provided that attention is paid to avoiding dangers such as enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel existence, or excessive exposure to the virtual world," he said.

"In the search for sharing, for 'friends,' there is the challenge to be authentic and faithful, and not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial public profile for oneself."

The pope is known to write most of his speeches by hand while his aides manage his forays into cyberspace.

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Articles...

The great moral dangers of television
https://www.tldm.org/news6/television1.htm

Television: pathetic sights and consequences
https://www.tldm.org/news6/television2.htm

Television presents to you “a way of life that is not akin to the way of your God”
https://www.tldm.org/news6/television3.htm

Pope Pius XI on the corrupting influence of television and movies
https://www.tldm.org/news6/vigilanti%2Dcura.htm

Archbishop O'Malley calls MTV 'poisonous'
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