Church provides online alternative

19th November 2010

With social networking sites playing a bigger role in our everyday lives it seems even churches are now looking to the internet in an attempt to reach out to people.

One example is the parish of St. Wojciecha in Lublin, which already has an ‘on-line congregation’ of 40 but is hoping to recruit more as word spreads.

“Establishing our Facebook profile was a joint decision by all our priests. While the Head Vicar acts as administrator, I do take a look in from time to time,” says Father Jacek Wargocki.

However, he is quick to fend off criticism that online congregations are an alternative to actual church-led services, stressing that they are merely there to remind people of i ...