Saturday, March 30, 2002
Priest Jams Cell Phones at Mass
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 04:25 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020326_1149.html
What do you think about this? I can see both sides of this point - I think it's rude to not turn off your cell phone in church, movies, etc. But I also know that if I was someplace and I needed to get an emergency phone call, I'd want to get it. What about you?
"A priest fed up with mobile phones ringing during Mass has installed an electronic jammer to keep his flock in tune with God. The Rev. Francisco Llopis, pastor of the Church of the Defenseless, said the beeps, tunes and other digital noise emitted by today's omnipresent cell phones are incompatible with quiet worship.
Llopis' church in the southeast coastal town of Moraira is the first in Spain to install such a device, which transmits low-power radio signals that sever communications between cellular handsets and cellular base-stations."
What do you think about this? I can see both sides of this point - I think it's rude to not turn off your cell phone in church, movies, etc. But I also know that if I was someplace and I needed to get an emergency phone call, I'd want to get it. What about you?
"A priest fed up with mobile phones ringing during Mass has installed an electronic jammer to keep his flock in tune with God. The Rev. Francisco Llopis, pastor of the Church of the Defenseless, said the beeps, tunes and other digital noise emitted by today's omnipresent cell phones are incompatible with quiet worship.
Llopis' church in the southeast coastal town of Moraira is the first in Spain to install such a device, which transmits low-power radio signals that sever communications between cellular handsets and cellular base-stations."
