Shutting down the Vatican...website

Religion Dispatches
March 7, 2012

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Reuters reported this morning that the Italian branch of Anonymous, those hackers best known for attacks on Scientology, decided to send a message to the Catholic Church by shutting down the official Vatican website (still not responding as of this posting).

What are the Church's misdeeds, according to these code crusaders? They go back to the selling of indulgences in the 16th century. And more recently, of course, there's the Church's interference in Italy's domestic politics. (Not just Italy, we'd have to say.)