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Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests
crimeandpunishment writes "The Catholic church of France isn't looking for friends on Facebook, it's looking for priests. The church has turned to Facebook as part of a campaign to attract young people to the priesthood, in an effort to combat its drastically dwindling number of priests. It may be working. The Facebook page attracted more than 1,200 fans in one week."
Unless you are prepared to explain why your religion probably has a higher (but less publicized) level of sexual abuse.
I've never seen so much bigotted commentary in all my life. Slashdotters ought to be ashamed of themselves. I wonder would you be so quick to poke fun at Jews? It seems anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice. The way ye are going on, you'd think the great Utopia that is secular society (you know, the one that you slashdotters subscribe to and pay taxes towards) had never produced a paedophile or a cover-upping bureaucrat. Anyway, despite the bigotted commentary, I get the distinct feeling that there's also a lot of begrudgery towards the Catholic Church (an institution that is incredibly wealthy). A Church that brings too much attention to the failings of the modern society that you live in. Facebook is facilitating the Church to spread her message. No big deal. The message hasn't changed all that much - it's just the medium is slightly different. And it's obviously working: this year, the year of priests, vocations are up and are rising steadily. Some seminaries who haven't had students for over 10 years have students in their lecture halls once again.