"Put down that laptop!" says bishops' council

Moscow, June 26 (Interfax) - Participants of the Moscow Patriarchate Bishops' Council, which is being held in Moscow these days, are concerned that some clergymen often discuss inner church problems in Internet including the Live Journal.

"Such practice not only contradicts moral setup and Church canons but should be considered unacceptable and subjected to condemnation," the Council's official website has reported on the results of its working group session.

As an alternative to this tendency that witnesses to "the lack of lively communication in the Church," the working group suggested conducting more seminars and meetings of clerics on diocesan level to discuss most acute questions of church life and to work out joint position on them.