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Éric Salobir, virtual and spiritual ferryman

2021-05-06T10:42:17.270Z


PORTRAIT - This Dominican, globe-trotting priest, theologian and expert in new technologies, weaves links between worlds that do not exist side by side.


In his own words, the man is a real carrier pigeon. So much so that we always fear when calling him to wake him up on the other side of the world. Covid obliges, it is however in Paris that we find it this time.

"I almost would have preferred to be awake at 5 in the morning," he

jokes a little regretfully. Appointment is made at 222, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, at the Dominican convent in Paris. With his white sneakers and his digital tablet, he almost makes you think of a digital entrepreneur. In his office, a Yoda plush next to it with a book by Pope Francis. Some call him the

“Vatican geek”

. He does not appreciate:

"I am not a guru!", He

asserts.

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At 51, Eric Salobir sees himself more as a smuggler between several worlds.

At the same time priest, theologian and expert in new technologies, he seeks to forge links between worlds that do not rub shoulders.

With the teams of the Human Technology Foundation, the small NGO he co-founded,

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Source: lefigaro

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