Word: filtravox
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Last week Romano Barberis of Milan and Paolo Scanzoni of Rome, who worked out Filtravox, were happily sure that they had filled a long-felt need. Since Osserva-tore's announcement on Nov. 10, they have been getting phone calls, letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when...
...just a short notice in Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. "A hygienic acoustic device for confessors," it read, "has met with . . . great praise. It is a patented pigeonhole called Filtravox, usually rectangular in shape, but capable of being applied to any opening in the confessional. Confessors have too often been exposed to the bad breath of penitents, who may even be ill ... The airtight membrane of this device protects the confessors from contagious germs...
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