Comments on: “Blog!” says the pope . . .

By: Chris Donato

Chris Donato — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:57:46 +0000

I’m offended at the word evangelical (the gnostic gurus of our day). Please strike it. ;-)

By: WenatcheeTheHatchet

WenatcheeTheHatchet — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:21:11 +0000

Perhaps because he’s the Pope and not an old school Baptist? It’s more of an old Reformed evangelical Protestant thing to say that the internet is “gnostic” and “not incarnational”. Except for all those bloggers. ;)

By: Daniel Imburgia

Daniel Imburgia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:23:50 +0000

This has been consistent preaching by the church since Vatican I. Paul VI @ Vatican II (anticipating Halden’s blog?) promulgated in “Inter Mirifica” (‘something wonderful’) “Finally, care must be taken to prepare…critics, who will be equipped with the best skills in their own crafts and trained and encouraged to render judgments which always put moral issues in their proper light.” This also coincides with the feast day of Saint Isadore of Seville, the patron saint of the internet, sometimes pictured with a pen in his hand and surrounded by a swarm of bees! Obliged.

By: Chris Donato

Chris Donato — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:14:47 +0000

I’m surprised the (olde) Pope so casually assumes the gospel can be proclaimed in any way other than face-to-face proclamation.