Priest Befriends Brothel On Facebook
Updated: Tuesday, 05 Apr 2011, 9:14 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 05 Apr 2011, 9:14 PM EDT
(NewsCore) – VIENNA — A Catholic priest admitted making an embarrassing blunder when he accidentally agreed to be friends with a brothel on Facebook, Austria’s Osterreich newspaper reported Tuesday.
Anton Faber, the high-profile head of the St. Stephen’s parish in Vienna, Austria’s capital, thought nothing was amiss when a friendship request appeared on his page from Laufhaus Rachel.
“I was unaware. Rachel is a beautiful biblical name,” he said, adding that he thought it could also have been the name of a sports facility.
Unfortunately for Faber, Laufhaus Rachel turned out to be a far raunchier type of venue. The clergyman had just agreed to be ‘friends’ with the home-page of a well-known Viennese brothel.
Faber unlisted Laufhaus Rachel after he realized his mistake, Osterreich said.
He promised to be more careful when accepting friends in future but vowed to continue using the social networking site as useful tool to communicate with worshipers.
That story could be so funny, and we could laugh well while reading it if the media wouldn’t have put enough attention on sex and the Catholic church. Recently, we heard a lot about priests who sexually abused their churchgoers. Sex should be the last thing that has a connection with priests. Religion is innocent, pure and beyond guiltily, dirty, evil pleasures. Priests, who are the medium between God and the followers, should embodied all what is virtues. It could be also questioned, why a priest is using Facebook. Well, it is a social network side and priests have to socialize with members of their churches. I guess Sunday services are not enough to maintain relationships. I believe there are members who need to ask their priest’s opinion about everything. What can be a better place than a social network side? Also, to be honest churches are not for profit organizations and they need to maintain good relationships with their members in order to get the decent amount of donations. So, nothing is wrong if a priest is using Facebook, however, he has to be cautious whom he clicks as his friend. What can be more terrifying when a priest accidentally accepts a friend request from a brothel? All of the sudden he becomes a man whom obviously have guiltily, dirty, evil thoughts. Well, there is one advice to take here for all of us. Next time have to watch more carefully whom we accept as our friends. First impression does not work anymore, we need to dig deeper if we want to save our good reputation.
