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Vatican Bans IOS Confession App

An anonymous reader writes "Despite all the hype that a lowly priest had approved the new confessional app hitting the app store, the truth has now revealed itself. According to today's Daily Mail, a spokesman for the Vatican, Federico Lombardi said: 'It is essential to understand that the rites of penance require a personal dialogue between penitents and their confessor. It cannot be replaced by a computer application. I must stress to avoid all ambiguity, under no circumstance is it possible to confess by iPhone."

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  1. Re:Dependent on the Church by LastGunslinger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, we went over this between 400 and 500 years ago. It was called the Reformation.