Pope Francis says that the Internet is a gift from God by its power to unite people and inspire them to be supportive. Although, in his opinion, there is still much to do. Meanwhile, the Pope uses his Twitter account, @Pontifex, on a daily basis, where he writes daily and also has an application for mobile devices in which you can access Vatican news, webcams and information from the Pope.
And is that the Pope's commitment to communication is total and without a doubt, the Internet is a great facilitator for this, providing it with total reliability, offering proximity and proximity. The Pope is grateful for the quality leap provided by technology, although still, he says, there is a scandalous gap between the opulence of the rich and the total poverty of the poor as well as exclusionary behaviors such as marginalization, poverty and conflicts over ideology. The main challenge, says the Pope, is make people willing to listen and learn from each other.
Pope Francis also indicated that the great paradox of the Internet is that unites people wherever they are but also get us to distance ourselves from those we have next to us. Another of the great opportunities offered by the Internet is the ability to access many opinions to contrast, choose, approach or dismiss and allow you to have an open mind, listen, drive dialogue and intelligent debate and know how to accept all opinions.
Among the risks that the Internet has, in addition to the exclusion commented, is the handling, and is that the speed with which information moves clearly exceeds our capacity for reflection and judgment and can lead us to distract from loved ones.
These ideas and many more are those presented by the Pope for the Day of Social Communications, presented today by the Vatican. The elaborated document is called Communication at the Service of an Authentic Meeting Culture and it can be said that it is a blessing of Pope Francis to the new communication technologies. The full document is in the following link for more information.
