Margaret Warner from the PBS in the US has a story on the Pope’s reservations about the internet which apparently can also lead to “multiple forms of degradation and humiliation”.
Think embarrassing Facebook fotos, maybe.
But the Pope who is the leader of that wonderfully enlightened organisation called the Catholic Church (remember the inquisition) is obliged to tread carefully since openness and transparency have become synonymous with the idea of liberal democracy that is so fashionable in the western world.
It isn’t hard to understand why the Catholic Church might not welcome moral relativism since its authority is founded on having a special relationship with God, the ultimate and most absolute source of authority. Should widespread relativism ever take hold Richard Dawkins might have to re-examine his logic.
