Pope Blesses And Warns About Facebook

The Pope isn't one give a blessing to something modern without coupling it with a warning. And so that is what Pope Benedict XVI did today, when he gave a qualified blessing to social media outlets like Facebook, but urged people to not let the technology replace real human contact.

The Pope isn’t one give a blessing to something modern without coupling it with a warning. And so that is what Pope Benedict XVI did today, when he gave a qualified blessing to social media outlets like Facebook, but urged people to not let the technology replace real human contact.

The pontiff had already blessed online social media in a speech last year, although that time he had only briefly mentioned how sites like Facebook responded to people’s natural desire to connect with others.

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