MANILA, Philippines?Nearly everything can be done on a computer these days, so how about the Catholic tradition of "Visita Iglesia" or visiting seven churches on Maundy Thursday to pray and reflect on the coming suffering of Jesus Christ.

Now at the click of a mouse, believers can fulfill Holy Week obligations they otherwise could not for a variety of reasons?illness, work, or living in a part of the world where there are no Catholic churches.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) set up the website www.cbcponline.net, featuring the facades and interiors of seven Metro Manila churches.

At a click, a believer enters the first church, is led to the stations of the cross and shown prayers to be read at each station. There is an audio file of prayers and songs that can be played by pressing a button. And then it's on to the next church.

Featured are the Manila Cathedral, San Agustin Church, Quiapo Church, San Lorenzo Ruiz Church, Tondo Church, Malate Church and Baclaran Church.

CBCP spokesperson Msgr. Pedro Quitorio said the online Visita Iglesia was intended for overseas Filipino workers living in non-Catholic countries and those who cannot physically visit churches.

It was not intended for those capable of going to the churches and who just want to stay at home, he said.

"It should be taken as a substitute in an extreme situation where you cannot make it ... liturgy means community," he said.

Another church official, meanwhile, has called for sensitivity in what the media air or publish during Holy Week, after a television show featured skimpily-clad entertainers on a beach on Palm Sunday.

Msgr. Gaspar Balerite of Catarman, Northern Samar, was displeased by a noon variety show that was aired from Boracay, according to a report posted on the CBCP website.

"Since you're in the media, kindly bring this to [their] attention-that they be sensitive to Holy Week, that they respect this Catholic observance. Just this noon, Channel 2 showed a beach scene with girls in skimpy bikinis and it is Passion Sunday," Balerite said in a text message to Quitorio on Sunday.

Balerite said that by pushing beach resorts as a Holy Week destination, the station showed the Catholic observance as a time for merrymaking, when it is supposed to be a time for repentance, abstinence and fasting.