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Archbishop Dolan Blogs, But Doesn't Really Use Computer

2009_10_dolanblog.jpg Archbishop Timothy Dolan is on the information superhighway—the leader of the New York Archdiocese has a blog called The Gospel in the Digital Age, where he tackles things like sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (today's entry is an op-ed he submitted to the NY Times, which declined it) and baseball—"It’s been hard for this bishop to be against angels, but fortunately that crisis of conscience has passed with the Yankees 5-2 victory last night over the Los Angeles Angels, giving them their 40th American League pennant and sending the Bronx Bombers back to the World Series."

The NY Times notes "only a handful of American bishops and cardinals have entered the meat-eating arena of the interactive Web," even though Pope Benedict is on Facebook. Brooklyn Archdiocese Bishop Anthony DiMarzio's spokesman Msgr. Kieran Harrington said, "The Internet can breed a kind of intensity, and negativity, that is hard to take. We just do not have the manpower to monitor something like that." Dolan's staff monitors the comments closely—Dolan "has a computer in the office but sometimes needs help with certain functions, like turning it on. He does not do e-mail."

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  • KayNKansas

    It wasn't too long ago that authority in the Roman Catholic Church proclaimed the internet an instrument of the devil. Sometime before that, the earth was flat and apples didn't fall from trees. So, what's with this? He pretends to be computer literate? Ah, yes, they are all 'great pretenders'!

  • ANGRYGOD11

    So what? Convicted murders serving life in max security blog.

  • The Lord

    "God is Everywhere, even on a blog!"

    No shit Archbishop. Christ, who hired these people??

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