Mobiles are bad for your soul, the Vatican warned on Monday (November 24, 2008). Phones and computers are making the world so noisy and hectic that people cannot cultivate their spiritual dimension. And without a spiritual life ‘you will lose your soul’, said Father Federico Lombardi, the Pope’s spokesman.
‘In the age of the mobile phone and the internet it is probably more difficult than before to protect silence and to nourish the interior dimension of life,’ said Fr Lombardi. ‘It is difficult but necessary.
‘Today this is a very grave threat, and it is the most irreparable misfortune,’ he said, adding that if the spiritual dimension of a person was not guarded and nourished or it could ‘become barren to the point of drying up and, indeed, dying. Daily Mail and Cellular News report.
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