Thought for the day - reach out in Christian love when you use the social media -

Facebook can be a wonderful thing.  I am connected on Facebook with current and former parishioners and with family and friends, with the ability to share a lot of wonderful things with them.  However, we all know that social media can be used in a very destructive and mean-spirited way as well.  I saw the following article on a blog that I subscribe to.  The Tablet is a very well-known Catholic publication in Great Britain.  It is sad when social media is used to rip people down, rather than to lift people up.  We should all keep this in mind when we post things to the internet.

No, not like that, unfortunatelyTwitter and Facebook are rich sources of snide and nasty comments and it appears that Robert Mickens, The Tablet's man in Rome has fallen foul of his own FB post. Why, oh why, do people divulge personal opinions on places such as Twitter and Facebook? Now Micken's post was not just personal, it was grossly offensive referring to Pope Emeritus Benedict as 'the Rat'. Apparently, there are many in the liberal world who call themselves Catholic but who also like to smear the good name of a good and holy man.
(Posted by Richard Collins at LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW)