He’s not just any ol’ Cardinal but THE cardinal charged with safeguarding liturgy and the discipline of the sacraments, and he doesn’t like mixing cell phones and prayer.
In a talk given in Rome last month, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, said that while he appreciates the convenience of using a cell phone or tablet to read the Divine Office, for example…
“it is not worthy: it desacralises prayer…These apparatuses are not instruments consecrated and reserved to God, but we use them for God and also for profane things! Electronic devices must be turned off, or better still they can be left behind at home when we come to worship God.”
Read the report on his talk here.
Here’s someone who disagrees with the Cardinal.
Your thoughts?