Polish priest offers absolution in mall of shopping heaven

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By Askold Krushelnycky in Prague
Published: 06 December 2005


Poles are being given the chance to reconcile their devotion to Mammon with their duties as Catholics after a confessional booth was installed at a new shopping centre in the southern Polish city of Katowice.

Customers can now receive absolution in between buying Christmas presents. A taste for consumerism has been developing rapidly in the former Communist countries of central Europe and the Catholic Church in Poland worries that increasing numbers of the faithful have spent too much time on pilgrimages to shopping heaven rather than attending church.

With the approach of the Christmas shopping spree, the church in Katowice has decided to compete for custom in the city's Silesia City Centre shopping precinct.

As in Britain, Sunday shopping has become something of a national family recreational activity in Poland. Large modern shopping centres with crèches and a variety of restaurants and bars provide what is perceived to be exciting entertainment in previously sleepy towns and cities.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article331423.ece


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1. LOL! Anyone remember the 'Jesus Booth' scene from THX-1138?