Priest Checks Fingerprints For Mass Attendance

mytrip writes "A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass. The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it. 'This is comfortable. We don't have to stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks,' said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina."

But...

[overkill1024]

Couldn't the church just have faith in the pupils' attendance instead of requiring notebooks with evidence? I mean, that is how this works, right?