The Vatican’s website was temporarily taken offline by the international hacking group, Anonymous. www.vatican.va was completely inaccessible for a brief period today as the site underwent a denial of service attack

The official statement from Anonymous, the group taking credit for the attack, stated, ”Today, Anonymous has decided to put your site under siege in response to your doctrine, liturgy and the absurd and anachronistic rules that your profit-making organization spreads around the world.” It’s unclear whether or not other groups were involved in the website attack.