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Originally Posted by patilsaurabhr
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thanks for that link but we had it very early in the thread. The article and you missed what this app really does. Nowhere did it suggest one could do their confession via the app. I mean think about that for more than a moment, confession requires what? Come on you know the answer...a freaking priest, yes? So, just how would an app manage that? Well, maybe when the currently under development Priest-o-matic and Priest-in-a-Can apps are done then perhaps, but for the foreseeable future one kinda needs the human on the other side of that screen, or for the really brave - or foolhardy some might say - there is the face-to-face option.
So, don't be so jump the gun here or quick to accept what some "news source" posts to generate hits. The Vatican explained one cannot confess via iOS device, maybe the don't like Apple, I dunno, but the app does not nor did it ever suggest that was it's function or purpose. Instead it offers people a way to manage things which they feel need to be confessed...a PIM for sin is one way to look at it. That is not a problem as it's no different than keeping a journal and while The Church might have tried to ban reading and writing among the peasantry they learned from other peoples who tried the same thing so reading and writing are still cool with them. So if a person can use a journal then there will be no problem using the iOS app. In fact the developers went on to state the would love to work to help assure the Vatican what this app does and what it's purpose is...
Plus remember, for Catholics it might be a "sin" to use it, but isn't that what confession is for? So, use it all ya want then just sneak in the "forgive me father for I have sinned, I used the iOS app 'Confession' to keep this list of sins. It was only $1.99 and made it so much easier between confessions, you know the stress of trying to remember everything I did wrong since my last confession. I mean look, were it not for this app, there must be 200 more things we need to cover which I otherwise might have forgotten until it was too late, now I can completely clear my bucket-list here and now...how cool is that?"
I find humor in this as do many people, and as I mentioned a very dear friend of mine who happens to be the Parish Priest in a small town in California, thinks the same, in fact he was who sent me the link. K? It's not about making fun of the church and their beliefs but it's about the quite funny relationship of low-tech (religion) meets high-tech (the whole iOS generation and it's cousins). So, let's keep the fun in this thread and glad you added the link because people do need to remember to actually READ these links and not assume things like this app being about replacing confession with a device in your pocket.