patron saint of the Internet

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 17 09:48:13 PDT 1999


Juliana Shearer wrote:


>Has anybody seen this?
>http://www.ireland.com/scripts/technology/showall.cfm?id=424
>
>Representative quote: "Spokesman for the Catholic Media Office Tom
>Hallwood said: "There are patron saints of many things, so why not let
>the Internet have one?"
>
>Doesn't the Catholic Church have anything more useful to do besides make
>records of the Pope singing off-key and ensuring an internet presence?

Well the U.S. Catholic Church has endorsed the Jubilee 2000 debt relief scheme. While that's hardly revolutionary, it's better than a lot of the reactionary stuff they often do.

Doug



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