The list of “serious violations of human dignity in the Declaration of the Doctrine of the Faith, titled in Latin “Dignitas Infinita”,
is completed with “digital violence”
and new forms of violence
spread through social networks.
He cites as examples “cyberbullying” and the dissemination of pornography and the exploitation of people for sexual purposes or through gambling on computer networks.
The document points out that “the progress of digital technologies, which also offer many possibilities to promote human dignity, increasingly tends to create a world in which exploitation, exclusion and violence grow, which can end up damaging The dignity of the human person.
“Think about how easy it is, through these means,
to endanger anyone's good reputation
with fake news and slander,” highlights “Infinite Dignity.”
At this point, Pope Francis highlights that “it is not healthy to confuse communication with simple virtual contact.”
The document points out that “the progress of digital technologies increasingly tends to create a world in which exploitation increases. Photo: iStock.
“The digital environment is also
a territory of loneliness, manipulation, exploitation and violence
, to the extreme case of the (so-called) dark web,” the document states.
He concludes by stating that “digital media can expose us to the risk of addiction, isolation and progressive loss of contact with concrete reality, making it difficult to develop authentic interpersonal relationships.”
A 22 page document
In the long document entitled “Infinite Dignity”, of twenty pages, the Pope signed a document prepared by the Dicastery of Doctrine, which placed gender confirmation operations on the same level of seriousness as abortion and euthanasia. surrogacy. They were condemned as practices that violate God's plan for human life.
The document, of great theological importance and which reviews very important topics
, was five years in the making,
with a considerable revision in recent months.
Pope Francis approved the document on March 25 and
ordered its publication.