Need to confess?
There’s an app for that.
Reuters reports that the U.S. Catholic Church has apparently given its blessing to an iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession.
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.
Features in the new app include:
-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.
AndyMac says
“Ability to add sins not listed in standard examination of conscience”
It might be worth $1.99 just to see what sins are already listed.
And are newly entered sins added to some sort of database for inclusion in the next version? That could be fun to play with.
SK8r says
call me a protestant, but should they really charge for that? & who gets the dough? the offering plate? the developer? apple?!?!?
Randall says
Is someone suggesting you can use an Apple to get back into paradise?
Lejon from Chandler says
Why does the number 1138 suddenly come to mind?