While optimistic about the opportunities that the Internet provides, the pope encourages Catholics to consider how the web is transforming culture and daily life. Benedict XVI warned that because more and more people are communicating through computers or mobile phones, true dialogue is being decreased as well as a responsibility for what said.

The new languages that are developed in digital communication result in, among other things, a more intuitive and emotional mentality, oriented toward a different logical organization of thought and relationship to reality, which often gives priority to the image and hyperlinks.

The risks are obvious to all: the loss of intimacy, superficiality in relationships, resorting to the emotional and a general attitude that prevails over the desire for truth. - Benedicto XVI

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