CSI meets the catechism?

by Tom Gallagher on Feb. 02, 2010

Just when you think you've seen it all or Technology inside the church, Polish-style

"A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at Mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said Friday.

The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 Masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.

The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.

No longer dip the fingers

Submitted by frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco) (not verified) on Feb. 02, 2010.

No longer dip the fingers into the holy water fount, which has been banned as the bearer of flu, but this biometric reader?

Is this sacrament Eucharistic or Orwellian?

Wait until Rome gets a hold of this one!

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