Amid Calls for Transparency, Pope Describes Dangers of Digital Age

"At a conference on digital media at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI attacked the idea of transparency in the Internet age, warning that digital transparency exacerbates tensions between nations and within nations themselves and increases the 'dangers of ... intellectual and moral relativism,' which can lead to 'multiple forms of degradation and humiliation' of the essence of a person, and to the 'pollution of the spirit.' All in all, it seemed a pretty grim view of the wide-open communication environment being demanded by the Internet age."

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The Vatican has to be sick of Web 2.0's attention. I'm not planning on cutting them a break. Was this what Rudd and the Pope talked about when Rudd visited the Vatican? Is the Australian Government's filter designed to limit the usability of the internet because it is upsetting the Vatican's power balance?

Gay prostitution ring linked to Vatican

VATICAN CITY - One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.

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My favorite question: Is this religion teaching people how to be good?
These horrible, hypocritical people presume to tell us we should listen to their instruction on correct moral behaviour. Come on!

Conroy, I think he's a Catholic, wants to tell us what's suitable on the web... really?

Rudd! He went and visited the pope... in the very place where this was going on. And he presumes to tell us that the net us a dangerous place for kids.