Source: Zenit
CUERNAVACA, Mexico, MAY 4, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When Héctor Mojica Romero decided to respond to false and misleading press reports with a Facebook group in support of priests, he never anticipated the response.
The group, at 36,642 members as this article is being edited -- up from 27,128 when it was prepared -- is growing by thousands of members a day.
"Yo tengo un amigo sacerdote que es genial aunque los medios digan que no" (I have a priest friend who is just fantastic, even if the media says otherwise) is the name of the group.
Mojica, 27, created the group one day after watching a TV report that criticized priests because of the cases of sexual abuse. He said that reflecting on his own experience, he knew priests are not as they were presented. He created the Facebook group anticipating that it would be for his friends in Mexico.
Now, the explanatory text introducing the group is in 10 languages besides Spanish. In English, it explains: "Courage priests!!! We need you. We trust you. We entrust our children to you. There is a campaign going on, pretending to make some exceptional incidents, some of which happened a long time ago, appear as normal, thus manipulating data and facts.
"The truth always prevails. This is why we wish to encourage you and to renew our trust in you and in our pastor Benedict XVI."
Mojica admits he's impressed by the response, which came almost immediately from the Caribbean, South and North America, Asia and Europe.
Article provided by ZENIT News Agency.