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Pope Francis Asks Followers To Give Up ‘Trolling’ For Lent

Lent is a time for sacrifice and this year, instead of foregoing the usual vices, Pope Francis appealed for his followers to give up behaving rudely online.

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During his Ash Wednesday address to Catholics last February 26, Pope Francis told the people: “It is the time to turn off the television and open the Bible. It is the time to disconnect from your cell phone and connect to the Gospel.”

โ€œWe live in an environment polluted by too much verbal violence, by many offensive and harmful words, which the internet amplifies,โ€ he explained.

โ€œWe are inundated with empty words, with advertisements, with subtle messages. We have become used to hearing everything about everyone and we risk slipping into a worldliness that atrophies our hearts.โ€

He talked about being distracted from the word of God by the noise of the internet.

In this noise, โ€œwe struggle to distinguish the voice of the Lord who speaks to us, the voice of conscience, of good,โ€ the pope said.

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