The real Pope...Not Pope Jobs!
Dang! And here I thought the Vatican was joining the 21st Century by using the power of the Internet…
Thought this was fairly cool for “Sinners on the go.” Can you imagine if the Corleone Family had this in the Godfather!
“Yo! Pope Jobs – Sorry about that dead horse in the bed thing…”
Can’t wait for the AT&T versus Verizon TV ad on this one. “Only our network allows you to lie to your significant other… And be absolved at the same time! There’s an ap for that!”
Vatican: You Cannot Confess by iPhone
So much for instant absolution: The Vatican today emphatically stressed that Catholics cannot confess by iPhone, one day after news of the “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” emerged, reports the AFP. “It is essential to understand that the rites of penance require a personal dialogue between penitents and their confessor. It cannot be replaced by a computer application,” said a Vatican spokesman. Should that not be clear enough: “I must stress to avoid all ambiguity, under no circumstance is it possible to ‘confess by iPhone’.”
It’s worth noting, however, that the company that created it did explain that the app—approved for use by Catholics by an Indiana bishop—walks users through the process of confessing and offers a “personalized examination of conscience,” but did not say that it replaced the confessing-to-a-priest part.
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