Fingerprint scanners in church?
Probably not what you were expecting, though, good reader:
According to Reuters, father Grzegorz Sowa recently installed in his church an electronic fingerprint scanner that keeps track of how often schoolchildren attend mass. If a student attends Mass 200 times over a three-year period, he or she doesn’t have to pass an exam before Confirmation.
Formerly, the kids would have to get the priest to sign a sheet of paper that said they’d been present at mass. Now, they’ll simply press their finger to a screen and be on their way, saving both priest and parishioner time. “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 a student named Karolina.
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