U.S. Catholic Church blesses iPhone app for confession

[chicot60]

By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY


The U.S. Catholic Church has apparently given its blessing to an iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession, Reuters reports.


The $1.99 "Confession: A Roman Catholic" app guides Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the developer describes as a "personalized examination of conscience for each user."

It is not designed to replace going to confession but to help Catholics through the act, which generally involves admitting sins to a priest in a confessional booth. Catholics still must go to a priest for absolution.

Among the features:

-Custom examination of Conscience based upon age, sex, and vocation (single, married, priest, or religious)
-Multiple user support with password protected accounts
- Ability to add sins not listed in standard examination of conscience
- Confession walkthrough including time of last confession in days, weeks, months, and years
- Choose from 7 different acts of contrition
- Custom interface for iPad
- Full retina display support

"Our desire is to invite Catholics to engage in their faith through digital technology," says Patrick Leinen of the Indiana-based Little iApps.




The company says Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne in Indiana officially authorized the app for Catholics to use.

The firm says the content was developed with the help of Rev. Thomas Weinandy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Rev. Dan Scheidt, an Indiana pastor.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/catholic-church-blesses-iphone-app-as-aid-for-confession/1

[whiteheather]

they used to say, only in Canada......................now i have seen everything, and have to say....Only in America........I wonder what next

[JCO]

they used to say, only in Canada......................now i have seen everything, and have to say....Only in America........I wonder what next

An I app for weddings and another for divorces...LOL

[StanW]

An I app for weddings and another for divorces...LOL

Didn't they make a movie about that - never get up from bed , spend your whole life plugged in ? Maybe fiction is closer to reality than we thought

[chicot60]

A new application being sold on iTunes, “Confession: a Roman Catholic App,” cannot be used as a substitute for confession with a priest, the Vatican said Wednesday. The application was developed by American entrepreneurs with the help of two priests and the blessing of a bishop. It features a questionnaire of sins, and is promoted as a tool both to revive interest in confession and to help Catholics prepare for the sacrament. But some media reports cast the app as a “virtual priest” for Catholics who do not have time for church, prompting the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, to respond, “One cannot speak in any way of ‘confession by iPhone.’ ”

[The Cobra]

The obvious question would be--------if you`re confessing over the net----how do you ante up to the collection plate?????

You just gotta love these guys. LMAO

[The Cobra]

I can see it now.....
They`ll put a virtual Pope up on the screen with the add.....

"Save your soul !!!.......Confess your sins the fast and easy way with safe and secure Paypal."