Confession App: Catholic Church Sanctions New iPhone App

[Joanne98]

Source: ABC

It seems as though the Catholic Church really really wants us to go to confession, so much so that apparently it has sanctioned a new iPhone app aimed at bringing some of the wandering sheep back into the fold.

You can now wipe your slate clean with Confession: A Roman Catholic App, available through iTunes for $1.99.

Now I know what you're thinking: Great, no more dark scary box. No more having to look at a perplexed clergyman trying to figure out how anyone could have been so stupid as to do that. But, not so fast.

I'm afraid that the new app doesn't replace traditional confession. You still have to go to a priest for absolution. The app simply attempts to make confession more accessible -- and perhaps a bit more fun.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/confession-app-roman-catholic-church-sanctions-iphone-app/story?id=12866499

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How long do you think it will be before someone hacks the confession data and puts it on the web?

[DJ13]

1. Pretty soon people can ditch the Church altogether & pray to their iPad

:eyes:

[Ken Burch]

2. Will it include iPapal iNfallibility?

[DJ13]

3. lol!

:spray:

[Ken Burch]

4. "You've been a great audience...I'll be here all week...

try the Lenten special...and be sure to genuflect to your waitress".

[Nihil]

21. No doubt promoting the concept of Paypal Infallibility ...? (n/t)

:hide:

[LanternWaste]

6. Not much of a diff...

Half the people I know already pray to their gaming consoles. Not too much of a diff...

[GodlessBiker]

5. Didn't El Hefe recently rail against this social networking menace for taking away from ...

real communications?

[Solly Mack]

7. 4give me, plz. kthxbai

Snicker.

[U4ikLefty]

8. must.....resist.....obvious joke. nt

[woo me with science]

9. Isn't that called Facebook? nt

[Submariner]

10. I wish George Carlin was still around to see this stuff....what an HBO Special that would be

[benld74]

11. We SHOULD have Jesus statue looking out helping us,,,,

Some have the statue looking IN at them
Hey Jesus! Watch this, left turn rrrroooooommmmmm!!!!

[Tesha]

12. Woody Allen had this *NAILED* back in "Sleeper"! (NT)

[customerserviceguy]

15. You so beat me to it

But even before this, my folks still 'go to Mass' by watching services at Notre Dame on Sundays. That's not too terribly far from Allen's vision. Clearly, he could see where the TV preacher was taking us!

[DeSwiss]

13. And yet people still take religion seriously.

So what happens when your confession call is dropped? Do you start over and have to pay the additional charges!?!?! That hardly seems fair. You could end up paying more for the same offense as someone else.

- Why not just send an http://www.elijahjesusclub.com/EMailJesus.html">email directly to Jesus and cutout the middleman?????

[patrice]

14. OMG, how low will they go! nt

[rug]

16. Lot of gullibility in this thread.

"In all seriousness, I think this app may be a boon for the sacrament. While confession (or the Sacrament of Reconciliation as we professionals are wont to call it) may be on the decline, I can attest that it remains a powerful venue for grace and healing.

"Some of my most poignant and transformative moments as a priest have occurred in a confessional, on both sides of the screen. I'm all for whatever makes it easier for others to take that cleansing plunge.

"Just make sure you tell the priest that you are using the app and not texting during your confession. I wouldn't want you getting thrown out of the box your first time back!"

Father Edward L. Beck, C.P. is a Religion Contributor for ABC News and the host of The Sunday Mass on the ABC Family Channel (www.TheSundayMass.org). He also co-hosts a weekly show for ABC News Now with Chris Cuomo called Focus on Faith.

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1484 "Individual, integral confession and absolution remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church, unless physical or moral impossibility excuses from this kind of confession." There are profound reasons for this. Christ is at work in each of the sacraments. He personally addresses every sinner: "My son, your sins are forgiven." He is the physician tending each one of the sick who need him to cure them. He raises them up and reintegrates them into fraternal communion. Personal confession is thus the form most expressive of reconciliation with God and with the Church. - Catechism of the Catholic Church

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[rug]

20. So you're obsessed?

I must have missed that part of the OP that mentioned rape.

[onager]

18. Old news. Muslims have had the I-god for years.

I saw tons of 'em on sale during my years in Egypt. Some were cheap stand-alone electronic Korans, with a prayer-time calculator and alarm. But nowadays most are integrated right into a cellphone, naturally.

An example is linked below - a cellphone that also contains 24 recitations of the Koran in different languages, the Hadiths, a library of Islamic books, and an international prayer-time clock/calculator/alarm. And other stuff.

A word about those Qari (Koranic Reciters) - these guys are like rock stars in the Muslim world. They make a lot of money recording recitations, and moonlight by reciting the Koran at weddings, funerals etc.

At my job site in Egypt, several co-workers had their favorite Koranic reciters on their PCs, in handy *.mp3 format. Everybody seemed to have a different favorite reciter, and sometimes they would crank up the volume trying to drown out somebody else's favorite.

Oh my ears! The reciter who really drove me nuts was Mashed Rashedy. I (silently) referred to him as Mash-head Rash-on-my-ass. He had an especially high, nasal and grating voice that could probably be heard in a steel mill, or just behind a jet engine at take-off. It sounded, I imagine, something like a donkey being sodomized with a cactus.

http://www.digital-furqan.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=20

[DeSwiss]

19. And don't forget.....

...the cellphones with the MeccaFinder GPS feature, so you'll know fer sure that yer prayers are being pointed in the right direction!




- I believe we're treading dangerously close to http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law">Poe's Law here........

[Nihil]

22. Now *that* is an image that I really didn't want to conjure up ...

> ... something like a donkey being sodomized with a cactus.

:yoiks:

(Especially from someone named "Onager"!)

[charlie]

23. Catch 'em before they need to confess

The Purity Pledge is a commitment that millions of young people have taken around the world as a statement of their intent to remain pure until such time as they marry. This commitment is often displayed by wearing a symbol of their pledge in the form of a purity ring.

The PurityRing App is a new way of both displaying this incredible commitment but also a way of engaging and helping a new generation. The App is simple to use and will be a lasting digital reminder to all those that take the pledge. The App will simply ask you to take the vow, the user will then hear the Purity Pledge being read out and once the user has confirmed their acceptance, they will receive a timeless digital spinning Purity Ring to proudly display on their iPhone or iPod Touch.

* Offers Male & Female Pledges
* Timeless Infinity Purity Ring
* Option to spread the word



http://www.purityringapp.com

(WAY OFF TOPIC: If you want to see a mind-blowing useful smartphone app... http://questvisual.com)

[EvolveOrConvolve]

24. For the dedicated multi-tasker

who wants to furiously masturbate and repent at the same time.

[robotamadeus]

25. Religious Software

I think religion in software is just on the brink of what is
possible.  A good idea for software would be religious sermons
on any topic that you could listen to immediatley.