Whoa.

"Just as Keanu Reeves fought against the powers of evil, a priest comes to help people fight against sin. There is a battle out there," explained Father Jonathan Meyer, associate director of youth and young adult ministry for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
He made the comments in an interview with Catholic News Service about a new vocations recruitment poster being distributed by his archdiocese.

The poster, which is modeled after an advertisement for the movie "The Matrix," is the brainchild of Father Meyer. It features a priest in full cassock -- and the requisite Roman collar -- holding a cross in one hand and a rosary in the other. And he is wearing sunglasses.

That simple juxtaposition provides the mood Father Meyer said he was aiming for when creating the poster -- he wanted to say something about today's seminarian.

And what he wanted to say is, "If you have to be touched by a priest -- and you do (we're putting Rohypnol right in our wafers now) -- wouldn't you want it to be by this guy?"

Really, that's what the small print beneath "The Catholic Priesthood" says. You can't see it because that picture is too small, but, trust me, if you could read it for yourself, that's what it would say.