Practicing Catholics should abstain from sending text messages by cell phone on Good Friday, according to the Archbishop of Salerno Gerardo Pierro.
“By abstaining from SMS messages, a preferred way of communication for young people, it’s a chance to put face-to-face contact first,” said the prelate, who advised not sending or receiving messages on March 29, the Friday when the Church holds the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
This is probably the first time the Church has come out against cell phone mania; other individual mobile-related events in Italy have included Christmas Mass by cell phone and a text message service with quotes from the Bible.
Italy has one of the highest rates of mobile phone use in the world — and an estimated 10,000 of these ‘messaggini’ are sent in the Bel Paese daily — and that number can hit 30,000 on holidays like Christmas or New Year’s.
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