Church,Chaplain,+and+Ministerial+Services



Scientology provides all the general services most church's provide and some new ones. They provide the typical marriage services, sunday services, and chistenings. The chaplains of the church perform many services including marriage counseling, audit counseling, as well as child counseling. An interesting fact about chaplain counseling sessions is that they don't refer to their services as something they did, the chaplains use special "technology" to help allieviate problems. Scientology is very close to the Catholic religion because the ministers are able to perform confessional and forgiveness to any parishoners wishing to take responsibility for their moral misconduct. Scientology describes their ministers as having traditional and non-traditional jobs. They are traditional in that they help their parishoners by listening to them and giving advice, but are non-traditional in that they can use technology to better the problems of the parishoners. While most of their services are comparable to Christian religions one of the ones that stands out is childbirth. Whereas most Christian religions are fine with a hospital birth Scientology prefers to promote a completely silent birth in the home where no one speaks during the birthing and then they baby is kept in silence for 2 days.