The Vatican has been online since 1997, and has communicated with believers via email and its web site. The Internet has also -- albeit unofficially -- been incorporated into the religion's practical tenets. According to Famiglia Cristiana, for instance, online activities occupy the same moral plane as activities in real life. Chat room flirtation, on this view, amounts to "online adultery".
Confessions appear to be generally exempt from the convergence, however. The Pope has recently admonished bishops and priests not to hear online confessions and not to grant collective absolutions--except under exceptional circumstances.
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