The Church and Internet

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By Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Document of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications dated 22 February 2002. It situates the Church’s interest in the Internet within its long engagement with the mass media, highlighting the Internet’s religious benefits such as direct access to spiritual resources and its value as an interactive medium for communication within the Church. It calls on Church leaders, educators and parents to prepare people to use the Internet wisely, names challenges such as hate sites and a consumer approach to faith, notes that there are no sacraments on the Internet, and closes with recommendations including voluntary certification of Catholic websites.

Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi (booklet edition).