Tag: CATHOLIC CHURCH

Devout Catholics and Apple devotees can now conduct their sacraments on the go, thanks to a new iPhone app designed to make confessions a little more convenient. 'Confession: A Roman Catholic App' markets itself as "the perfect aid for every penitent." The app provides a step-by-step guide to the confession process, and offers a so-called "personalized examination of conscience for each user," ...

Need to conduct Mass? Starting in July, there's an app for that. According to the AP, an Italian priest has created an iPad application that contains the entire missal -- the text used to conduct Mass throughout the liturgical year. The Reverend Paolo Padrini's unnamed free app will launch next month in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin. Two years ago, Padrini developed the iPhone app, ...

We bet the priest who cooked up the Vatican's new text-the-Pope program fancies himself a Father Fonzie, of sorts. He knows the kids -- what they "dig" and what "bums them out." The former? Texting. And the latter? Pedophilia. In response to the recent resignation of a German bishop, who has admitted to beating orphans and is facing accusations of pedophilia, the Catholic Church is offering its ...

The Catholic Church may be embroiled in a grotesque child abuse scandal, but the controversy certainly hasn't prevented one ecclesiastical TV station from taking its digital dogma to the third dimension. As NPR reports, Boston's CatholicTV has become the first religious media outlet to openly embrace 3-D technology by directly incorporating it into its pious programming. Upon opening the 3-D ...

In step with the Roman Catholic Church's measured technological strides, the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Monday that the identity of the Missourian archdiocese's next archbishop will be announced to the faithful via text message, the AP reported at Fox4KC.com. Since the archdiocese's former archbishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke, was selected to head the Vatican supreme court this past ...

Good ol' Ratzinger is doing his best to make sure that the Catholic Church doesn't get left in the technological dust. After embracing YouTube, the Pope has issued a statement giving his blessing (however cautiously) to Facebook, MySpace, and social networking sites in general. Pope Benedict issued a statement on Friday, for the World Day of Communications, welcoming the "gift" of technology and ...

Let's not beat around the bush here, the Catholic Church has always been a pretty big fan of blaming the downfall of man on popular culture and entertainment. And like the sound of AC/DC, somethings never change. The Pope is finding himself a little conflicted over cell phones. The same Vatican that started showering young churchgoers with text messages is now faulting mobile phones (and of ...

Okay, the world has officially gone completely mad. We thought it was bad when all you had to worry about was 'Second Life' related kidnappings and condescending robots, but now there are online beauty pageants for nuns, we don't even know what to do with ourselves. The pageant, which is most certainly not sanctioned by the Catholic Church, is the brainchild of Italian priest Antonio Rungi, who ...