There's No App for Confession

In case you were wondering, The Catholic Church does not sanction an new app for confession.  On February 9, 2001,The New York Times' Laurie Goodstein reported in App Can't Replace Confession, Vatican Says  that:  the Vatican has turn thumbs down on "Confession: a Roman Catholic App."

Goodstein further reports that the application is being sold on iTunes and

was developed by American entrepreneurs with the help of two priests and the blessing of a bishop. It features a questionnaire of sins, and is promoted as a tool both to revive interest in confession and to help Catholics prepare for the sacrament.

Touted "as a 'virtual priest' for Catholics who do not have time for church," a Vatican spokesman responded, “One cannot speak in any way of ‘confession by iP

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