Pope Slams Internet: Increases "Solitude and Disorientation" for Youth

LOS ANGELES (CBS) Pope Benedict XVI latest mission seems to be against the Internet. On Saturday, at a Vatican conference on culture, he warned people that the web is giving humanity a "sense of solitude and disorientation" and numbing today's youth.

"A large number of young people... establish forms of communication that do not increase humaneness but instead risk increasing a sense of solitude and disorientation," Benedict said.

He continued on that we are in an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

This speech comes just a month after he said that the growing use of technology should set off an "alarm bell."

In contrast, the pope's spiritual counterpart, the Dalai Lama, loves to tweet and stream live video on his Ustream channel.