Posted on 04/25/2020 6:13:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME - Italy led much of the world into a coronavirus lockdown, with the highest infection rates and death counts during March and early April, and now it’s also setting a tone for the exit, with the government here announcing a gradual return to normality beginning May 4.
Even before it debuted, however, authorities were forced to roll back a key element of the plan involving a digital tracking app that would record people’s movements as a means of preventing a new round of contagion once the quarantine ends, but which has generated serious resistance related to privacy, surveillance and big government.
So far neither the Italian church nor the Vatican have spoken out, but according to experts both in Italy and the U.S. on the intersection of privacy and Catholic doctrine, should they enter the fray, their position likely wouldn’t be clear-cut.
“From the viewpoint of the social teaching of the Church, it’s not a simple yes or no,” said Lorenzo Cantoni, a professor of information technology and new media at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.
“On the one hand, there’s the value of protecting public health. On the other is individual privacy and freedom, which is to be protected and preserved,” Cantoni said. “Balancing these two principles is the issue, which is not at all easy.”
“If the tracking app would use my data to better allow the health system to take care of everyone, then I have to do it,” said Franciscan Father Paolo Benanti, an expert in artificial intelligence and the ethics of digital technology at Rome’s Jesuit-run Gregorian University and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life as well as a consulter to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture.
“But if my data will be extracted by an unjust central system.......
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The people quoted have no idea how to be relevant in 2020.
COVID=19 is all about choosing a good lifestyle. COVID-19 overwhelmingly targets the obese and those with similar weakened bodies due to bad lifestyle choices.
The church should preach that Christians should choose a healthy lifestyle and not be so vulnerable to any virus.
The body of a Christian is the body of the Holy Ghost. Don’t defile it.
Sorry, but the Church has no answer on anything. Bergoglio is too busy with his Marxist agenda. Our bishops have shut down our churches and betrayed us. I think I’m outta here.
The answers are likely in the Book. That would be my educated guess.
Bergoglio will be gone soon. And the Eucharist will remain. God is good.
Hey are you communist socialist losers who want to create the reality based on the book 1984 by Orson Welles give it Up
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