Catholic ping!
As my husband always says: “It’s not my world.” And it isn’t.
Well, the honored Pope just visited an e-sewer. Who’s surprised? I hope he wasn’t.
This was a poor idea, for a multitude of reasons.
This would have shown itself, had they entered the medium gradually. As it is, it is like taking a shortcut across a plowed, muddy field.
How idiotic.
Do millions of people slavishly obey the condom prohibition while completely ignoring the prohibition on sex outside of marriage?
Welcome to the universe of the Obama constituency, your Holiness.
“Pope Benedict joined Twitter today and was greeted by hateful tweets...”
Picking up any newspaper on any day of the week and reading for three minutes will reveal that the world’s population includes an astounding percentage of ghouls.
I don’t believe your pope or anyone is the vicar of Christ any more than Osama Obama is...Jesus Christ doesn’t have a ‘vicar’ other than the Holy Spirit...
I can easily see why some would react the way they do on twitter...
Somehow I doubt he’s the one actually maintaining the account. Of course, I could be wrong. I’m sure he’s aware of the evil hostility to the Church, though.
May God bless him for trying to reach out to some of the people who need it the most: those who fill the holes in their souls with technology and social media and politics.
He will cast his bread upon the water and see what happens.