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Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-us-this-day-our-daily-farmville dept.

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."

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  1. JUST WOW by thijsh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Priests looking to Facebook as part of a campain to attract young people.

    1. Re:JUST WOW by Forge · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm neither Jewish nor Catholic, but given the choice I would rather be a Rabbi. Rabbis are practically required to have sex. (You must be married. Preferably with children).

      The logic is beautiful in it's simplicity. A big part of your job in both rolls is guiding people throgh normal problems of life. Rebellious kids, angry wife, miserable mother in law etc... The kind of thing a virgin priest would know nothing about and thus give pointless advice.

      However if you are looking for impressionable male virgins, FaceBook is a good place to start but Slashdot would be better. Most ACs should become priests. They already live under vows of Poverty and Chastity. Obedience isn't that hard to learn.

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  2. Just allow priests to marry already. by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It will largely take care of the pedophile problem and the dwindling number willing to be priests in one shot.

    Priests marrying wasn't disallowed all throughout church history anyway, it was political nonsense to do away with questions of inheritance.

  3. Re:A better, more old fashioned solution by nomadic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Church could completely reinvigorate itself and make sure there are plenty of priests by doing two things: (1) allow women to be priests; and (2) allow priests to marry. Until they do either one or both of those things they'll continue to weaken.

  4. Re:Please refrain from pedophile jokes... by sznupi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also wrong. The biggest threat to children are parents (or generally close family and "friends"). As with most of serious crime BTW...

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  5. Re:Please refrain from pedophile jokes... by Idiomatick · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm an atheist. We have lower levels of sexual abuse because our morals are reinforced by logic and a sense of regret rather than forgiven and cleansed by God making everything ok.

  6. A modern variation on an FBI sting by VShael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bonjour, je m'appelle Chris Hanson.

    Pourquoi n'avez-vous pas un siège de plus ici?

  7. Re:Please refrain from pedophile jokes... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mod +5 funny. Or +5 naive. I'd love to think that there is some religion or non-religion that consistently makes people better people

    But centuries of data shows otherwise.

    Utimately, it comes down to individuals and their individual choices. I've known very good Chrisitans and very evil ones. I've known very good Atheists and ones who I certainly wouldn't trust my kids with.

    The bottom line is that you need to judge people individually and not collectively

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