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Priest scans fingerprints to check mass attendance

Published: February 02, 2010

A Polish priest in the country's southern town of Gryfow Slaski has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass.

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, Reuters quotes from the Gazeta Wyborcza local daily.

The pupils in the town said they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who came up with it.

"This is comfortable. We don't have to stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks," said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina.

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Polish priest to schoolkids: 'Yes we scan' (thestar.com/Reuters)

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  1. I have a problem with this, and I'm sure if tried in the USA there would be Constitutional Privacy problems. This type of activity can only teach the kids about "God the Cop" and not our loving and forgiving Father.

    Posted By: Tony

  2. What can you say? Big Father is watching you?

    Posted By: Ron Bohr

  3. "...they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation."
    This priest - as MANY others - is NOT familiar with the catechetical documents that come to us from Rome (GDC, Canon Law) that state that Sacraments are NOT about 'readiness assessment. One does not - SHOULD NOT - have to take an exam in order to receive a Sacrament! How sad!

    Posted By: RuthAnn

  4. now parents will be following the mafia types, aka tony, cutting off their children's fingertips.....

    Posted By: frjimt

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