Network societies : virtual church, Facebook, spiritual ambulance : click to get absolution!

Bibliogr. s. 96-98

Is the church in XIX century ready to enter virtual reality? How does the evangelization of "virtual continent" look like? Answers to those and other questions can be found in the article, treating about effects of actions taken by priests in cyber networks, such as: running social network profiles, webpages, transmitting Holy Mass in the Internet, creating forums of interests, gathering virtual communities and many other activities. Moreover, initiatives conducted by monks, such as spiritual ambulance meant to provide spiritual support 24/7, will be discussed in this article as well. Saying of the one monk from the Capuchins brothers, who said that priest should be like Tesco, 7 days a week and 24hours per day available for people, has become motto of the project. Isn't this how modern church should be like nowadays? All those examples testify that modern clerics can treat internet as their work environment. Examples of web portals providing such spiritual services can be found in this article. Opinions of the church representatives regarding virtual confessions has also been quoted. Cyberspace has become fertile ground for all kind of pseudo-religious creations. Virtual reality is a home of religion manifests, because of the anonymity issues, needs of exteriorization of thoughts and searching of help amongst virtual communities.