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T H E P E R S O N I N T H E A G E O F T H E I N T E R N E T
freedom.
Thus the challenge posed by the internet is not merely tech-
nological, but profoundly theological and anthropological. It
forces us to ask what kind of beings we are becoming. If com-
munication is severed from bodily presence, if memory be-
comes permanent and inescapable, if information replaces
communion, then humanity itself is altered. The Church’s an-
swer cannot simply be rejection or acceptance of technology,
but the preservation of the person as communion, freedom,
embodiment, and future. Only in this way can it remain leav-
en of salvation in a civilization increasingly shaped by net-
works without faces and memories without mercy.
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