SURGING unemployment in Spain, one organisation is still keen to hire - the Catholic church, which promises steady work for modest pay in a new online priest recruitment drive. "I do not promise you a great salary. I promise you a permanent job," says one of the priests in a video launched by the Episcopal Conference, the body representing Spain's bishops, on YouTube. "How many promises have they made you that have not been fulfilled?" a voice asks at the start of the clip, in an apparent reference to the frustrations of Spain's five million unemployed - nearly a quarter of the workforce. "I do not promise you will live a luxurious life. I promise your wealth will be eternal," says another priest in the video, which is subtitled in English and includes images of worshippers taken during the Pope's visit to Madrid last year. The Episcopal Conference, in a statement, called the video "an innovative communication bid" aiming to "give rise to priestly vocation". Its figures showed the number of priests in Spain rose by 4.2 per cent from 2011 to 2012, reaching 1278, but it has fallen by more than 25 per cent overall in the past decade.
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