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Pope wrestling with technology

by on10 June 2010

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It is a sign of the Times New Roman


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Roman Catholic church appears to be having a few problems with the documents it is shoving on its website.

The Italian press has focused on one document that has appeared on the Vatican web site which was penned by the infallible Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius didn't have a word processor so that when his best seller encyclical Sacra Viginitas, was shoved on the web it appears to have been retyped.

On the Vatican web site the document goes on about “right from Apostolic Times New Roman this virtue has been thriving and flourishing in the garden of the Church.” Later Pope Pius bangs on about “ Several Times New Roman in the course of his comparison between marriage and virginity the Apostle reveals his mind…” Our personal favourite is “All holy men and women have most carefully guarded the movements of their senses and their passions, and at Times New Roman have very harshly crushed them…”

For some reason the word-processor replaced each occurrence of the word "times" with the name of the popular typeface: "Times New Roman." We know that the Roman Catholic church claims to be the font of all wisdom, but “Times New Roman are a-changing” and infallibility does not extend to data entry. Clearly the typeface, which is one of the older ones in the world, should be replaced by something more modern.
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