{"id":3230,"date":"2008-02-25T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/02\/concern-grows-over-priests-using-homilies-off-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2008-02-25T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:07:00","slug":"concern-grows-over-priests-using-homilies-off-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/02\/concern-grows-over-priests-using-homilies-off-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Concern grows over priests using homilies off the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this piece of news<\/a> left me shocked, simply shocked, from CNS: <\/p>\n

A prominent Polish priest said young priests are using the Internet to plagiarize homilies for Masses.<\/p>\n

“If a priest takes another person’s text and presents it as his own from the pulpit, without pointing out where he got it from, this is unethical and against the law protecting authorship,” said Father Wieslaw Przyczyna, co-author of the book “To Pinch or Not to Pinch.”<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, the practice has become common here,” he said.<\/p>\n

Father Przyczyna, chairman of the Polish Homiletics Group, told Catholic News Service Feb. 25 that he had been accused of “harassing priests and exposing their weaknesses” by drawing attention to the plagiarism problem.<\/p>\n

However, he added that more and more Polish Catholics were complaining about priests who read their Sunday homilies, while some Poles had traced the texts on the Internet and even come to Mass with their own copies.<\/p>\n

“People realize priests are often not speaking for themselves, but merely reading someone else’s sermon,” said Father Przyczyna, who also heads the religious communication department at Krakow’s Papal Theology Academy. “Owners of Internet sermon Web sites have noticed increased use on Saturday nights, suggesting some priests are trying to rescue themselves at the last moment by finding a text to read out at the next day’s Mass. This separates the priest from his congregation and poses a serious communication problem.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this piece of news left me shocked, simply shocked, from CNS: A prominent Polish priest said young priests are using the Internet to plagiarize homilies for Masses. “If a priest takes another person’s text and presents it as his own from the pulpit, without pointing out where he got it from, this is unethical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-art-of-preaching"],"yoast_head":"\nConcern grows over priests using homilies off the Internet - The Deacon's Bench<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/02\/concern-grows-over-priests-using-homilies-off-the-internet.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concern grows over priests using homilies off the Internet - 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