It remains anyone’s guess as to whether sainted pontiffs of the past would have descended into the mire of the Twitterverse or other social media.
What’s quite certain, however, is that they would never have employed such tools for the dissemination of false or ambiguous teaching—something which, alas, is repeatedly done by the current bishop in white.
Just last month, @Pontifex gainsaid the teaching of Jesus Christ that divine power over human life is legitimately entrusted to civil authorities (see Jn 19:11), instead claiming that: “The #DeathPenalty is always inadmissible, because it attacks the inviolability and dignity of the person.” Sadly, such off-the-cuff departures from official Catholic doctrine have been rather numerous in recent the years.
The current Vatican might benefit from a Catholic fact-checking team.
As such, the Tradivox project is pleased to refer them to MasterCatechism.com, the only digital search engine that limits its results to the official catechisms of the Church: those tidy summaries of faith and morals that voice her common and received doctrine across time and space.
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