Save us from temptation - and email, bishops pray

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From: Catholic News

Wollongong Bishop Peter Ingham features in a YouTube video to promote an Australian bishops’ pastoral letter warning on the opportunities and dangers of using the internet. The nation’s bishops employed traditional and 21st century communication techniques to give guidance to Catholics about the internet by sending a pastoral letter to every church in Australia, and posting video on YouTube, The Age reports.

The four minute video features the benign face and white hair of Wollongong Bishop Peter Ingham, flanked by a teenage girl with a laptop and a young boy, warning about unwelcome websites, stranger danger, cyber bullying and financial exploitation.

Bishop Ingham demonstrates how widespread the internet has become with a story of a three year old girl learning the Lord’s Prayer. Continue reading here…