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Pope: 'I don't know how to use the internet'
AFP via TheLocal.it ^ | 18 February 2018 03:03 CET+01:00

Posted on 02/18/2018 10:53:45 PM PST by Olog-hai

The 81-year-old Pope Francis admitted on Saturday that he struggles with modern technology.

“I don’t know how to use online networks and that kind of thing, not even mobile phones; I don’t have one,” he told his audience.

“I don’t know how to use the internet. When I have to send an email, I write it by hand and a secretary sends it for me,” he added.

Pope Francis also joked on Saturday that he is on the “waiting list” for sainthood, along with his retired predecessor Benedict XVI. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: catholic; internet; popefrancis; vatican

1 posted on 02/18/2018 10:53:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The “Pope” knows how to use Marxism....


2 posted on 02/18/2018 10:54:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai
You don't use the internet. The internet uses you.
3 posted on 02/18/2018 10:57:47 PM PST by snarkpup (One nation, under surveillance, ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, at least he isn’t going to Grindr.


4 posted on 02/18/2018 10:57:54 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Olog-hai

He has about 3 levels of plausible deniability right there.

I never said he wasn’t shrewd as a serpent.


5 posted on 02/18/2018 10:58:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Desperate to find something good to say about the Holy Father, I will say that his being technologically challenged is rather endearing. I only wish he were a bit more retro when it comes to doctrine and liturgy!


6 posted on 02/18/2018 11:21:39 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Secret Agent Man

Ha. I was thinking the same thing. I’m not buying this Sgt Schultz ‘I know nothing’ act.


7 posted on 02/18/2018 11:24:58 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Olog-hai

>>”The 81-year-old Pope Francis admitted on Saturday that he struggles with modern technology.”<<

...and Christianity.


8 posted on 02/18/2018 11:29:27 PM PST by nickedknack
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To: Olog-hai

That’s probably good for the rest of us.....


9 posted on 02/18/2018 11:46:39 PM PST by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Pope: ‘I don’t know how to use the internet’ “

So much for Infallibility.


10 posted on 02/18/2018 11:55:43 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: PLMerite

Hasn’t stopped him from attaching Western Civilization while doing his worst to destroy The Roman Catholic Church.


11 posted on 02/19/2018 12:03:21 AM PST by wmileo
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To: Olog-hai

He struggles with the Bible as well.


12 posted on 02/19/2018 12:12:40 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: Olog-hai
Screw the internet, someone teach Francis how to use the Bible!

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13 posted on 02/19/2018 12:26:35 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

The idiot soesn’t know how to use a Bible either. Poor old geezer.


14 posted on 02/19/2018 12:30:55 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Mastador1

Well, God did not inspire the milder “not OK”, but “abomination” (from Hebrew “to’evah”).


15 posted on 02/19/2018 1:00:19 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

He should learn to use his Bible first.


16 posted on 02/19/2018 2:44:15 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t think he had even been to the United States until his 70s.

He’s a bit out of touch with a lot of things.

Did he take a vow to give up these things?

Is he Amish?


17 posted on 02/19/2018 4:03:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: irishjuggler

Amazing that the pope can’t use a simple computer or mobile phone.

Well one thing we know he’s an expert in — taking orders from George Soros and the rest of Euro Global Elite. Sadly, he anoints and kisses their feet.


18 posted on 02/19/2018 4:32:19 AM PST by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Olog-hai

He doesn’t have a mobile phone or a Bible.


19 posted on 02/19/2018 6:06:59 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: snarkpup
You don't use the internet. The internet uses you.

"Very well put."


20 posted on 02/19/2018 8:44:11 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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