Vatican used Wikipedia for new cardinals' biographies

[LemonAndLime]

The Vatican has acknowledged that it used Wikipedia to produce biographies of 22 new cardinals that were sent out to journalists.

The biographies were copied from the Italian version of the user-edited online encyclopedia, word for word in some cases, and without attribution.

One clue was that many new cardinals were described as being “Catholic”.

The Vatican says it was trying to help journalists and warned them the biographies were “unofficial”.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16471950

 

[KostyaJMJ]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who is phoning it in at the office.

 

[Dale_M]

That sounds like a golden invitation to mischief. The Vatican needs to change that policy, and quickly.

 

[Neil_Anthony]

That’s really strange! I hope they didn’t pick the new cardinals based on the Wikipedia articles!

 

[Leegal]

That’s really strange! I hope they didn’t pick the new cardinals based on the Wikipedia articles!

We have a new Cardinal. Timothy Cardinal Dolan – Diocese of New York. Congratulations and may God grant him a long tenure. I was wondering when this would happen; he more than deserves the honor.

God Bless Cardinal Dolan.

 

[LemonAndLime]

That’s really strange! I hope they didn’t pick the new cardinals based on the Wikipedia articles!

“Level 58 super cardinal, very Catholic, and also has an awesome haircut and is a perfect candidate for the job.”

 

[Neil_Anthony]

We have a new Cardinal. Timothy Cardinal Dolan – Diocese of New York. Congratulations and may God grant him a long tenure. I was wondering when this would happen; he more than deserves the honor.

God Bless Cardinal Dolan.

That’s great.

We also have another cardinal in Canada now - Cardinal Collins of Toronto. He’s a wonderful Bishop and led the fight against the pro-abortion corruption in the Canadian Catholic “Development and Peace” charity. May God bless him too.