“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 on 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.”
Read more at Reuters (thanks, Tammy)
The catholic church loves and embraces technology …
Me thinks that before I would allow hundreds of children to place their finger on anything in that Church I would want to make sure that there is not a hidden wall or compartment behind that contraption. I’m just saying,…
Make church look more like prison…Yeah, that’ll REALLY boost attendance!
Go to church enough and you won’t need to study as much? Seems like they are putting religion before school and human development.
I dont see the big deal. Firstly from the above description it would seem like this is an optional thing, or at least some sort of ‘perk’ for the kids. If you go 200 times you get an automatic pass in you confirmation exam (presumably as it at least shows your committed to the church and would presumably picked up a bit of knowledge in your attendance).
If kids are having to go all the time anyway, why not get a perk from it? I think they should throw in Nectar points for doing confession.
That doesn’t look like a child’s finger!
I did not know you had to pass an exam to be confirmed. I guess you do learn something new every day. By the way Kjartan surely mass and confirmation exams are both religion more than education. (I said more not are only religion.) To me it seems fair that people should be allowed to be confirmed even if they are not up to the academic requirements of the exam.