So , Your Excellency, it is not true therefore that the Vatican is a bit antiquated with regards to technology? «A certain image wants the Vatican as a closed world, or even "antiquated" as you mentioned. Reality is quite different, because even if rather small, the state employs state-of-the-art technologies in all the fields required. An example might suffice: the extension of solar panels from which the Vatican derives the energy it needs. In the field of communications, computers - all types - have long since replaced typewriters, and I do not think there is, proportionately, such a large extent and use of the Internet as in the Vatican». According to Wikileaks dispatches however, Father Lombardi was the only one with a Blackberry... ... «At times we face, slightly fictional realities. Father Lombardi uses his "Blackberry" and, above all uses his art to communicate well. I would say that especially in this sense he is at the for...
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.