Church hangs up on Internet confessions
You'd think with all of the other issues that the Catholic Church has on it's plate these days, this would hardly create a ripple.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic church has pulled the plug on its Filipino flock confessing their sins via e-mail, fax and mobile phone text messages, according to the Philippine Star newspaper.
Filipinos are among the world's most avid users of text messaging but modern means cannot replace the traditional way of repenting to a priest, it quoted Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines secretary general Hernando Coronel as saying
"We have to protect that confidentiality and we insist on personal confession of the penitent to the priests," he said on Sunday.
Besides, you can't molest someone via e-mail, can you? (Insert gratuitous cheap shot here...oops, sorry; I just did....)