More BS from the Vatican. Of course the iPhone application is not a substitute for confessing to a live priest. First of all, the objective of the Vatican is to get Catholics into churches, as this generates more income for the Catholic Church. And what is more amusing (to the priest) than having some dumb schmuck confessing his or her “sins” to a Catholic priest; one of the biggest conglomeration of sinners on the planet. It really should be the other way around, it should be the priests doing the confessing, especially the pedophiles. TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Catholics cannot confess via iPhone and technology is not a substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest, the Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday.
The statement by Father Federico Lombardi follows the launch of an iPhone application aimed at helping Catholics through confession sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States.
“One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone,” Lombardi said Wednesday, adding that confession required the presence of the penitent and the priest.
“This cannot be substituted by any IT application,” Lombardi added.
Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a “personalized examination of conscience for each user.”
The application 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.
Some reports on its approval by the Catholic Church in the U.S. suggested confession would now be possible via iPhone.
(Reporting by Catherine Hornby)
