Once in a while, we find an article for which Benedict XVI is right about what he says and this happens to be one of them. Here he says:
“New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality.”
“The image can also become independent from reality, it can give birth to a virtual word, with various consequences — above all the risk of indifference towards real life.”
Having been very watchful of the direction of technology and where it is leading humanity, we can conclude that Benedict XVI is correct. The sad fate of these younger generations, being bombarded with “false” images, while simulated through a virtual world, they are working to the detriment of their souls. Being indifference or totally rejecting the existence of the real supernatural world, they are tied to a false reality that gives them a sense of adventure to explore with their imagination. The excitement of all possibility which cannot exist in this world, these poor souls are leading away from God even on a natural level, being detached from the corporal works for their fellow men.
One can assume this is exactly what is happening to Benedict XVI’s children in the Novus Ordo, having been brought up with the New Mass, with the liberalism and descralizing life of parishes from Catholic structure and discipline, his children lose the sense of amazing and wonder for the supernatural reality of the Catholic faith.
Sooner or later, the Novus Ordo will have to admit of its failure to bring the divine, unadultered faith to the world and speaking of itself in saying “it is finished.”
Floriana (AsiaNews) – “It is tempting to think that today’s advanced technology can answer all our needs and save us from all the perils and dangers that beset us. But it is not so. At every moment of our lives we depend entirely on God, in whom we live and move and have our being. Only he can protect us from harm, only he can guide us through the storms of life, only he can bring us to a safe haven, as he did for Paul and his companions adrift off the coast of Malta. They did as Paul urged them to do, and so it was “that they all escaped safely to the land”. This is just one of the salient passages of the homily Benedict XVI held this morning in Granaries Square, Floriana, in front of tens of thousands of people who welcomed the pontiff on his second day visiting the island of Malta.