Can anyone believe the Roman Catholics would have IPHONE confessions?

http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20110208/iphone-confession-app-catholic-church-approved-but-price-to-pay/
What would Jesus Do?
Do you go to Church After?

When people bow their heads to their smart phone in to days insular world....perhaps you meet them where they are at

Well, I don't know about Jesus, but the priests would love hearing gossip like in real confessions

Weird...

DO YOU PEOPLE ACTUALLY READ THE DARN ARTICLE????

1. It doesn't take a phone app. The point is that most people have their phones on them and usually don't carry an Examination of Conscious. Thus, there is now one available on the phone so that you may prepare for Confession. IT IS NOT THE SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION, it is an Examination of Conscious!

2. It takes a priest because God said it takes a priest. God is the one who stated that the sins were to be forgiven through the priest. The priest is the conduit for God's forgiveness, it is God forgiving you through the priest.

3. Only God can forgive sins, the Church acknowledges this, but God can also state how the forgiveness of sins is to be done--which He did. He stated through the priesthood:

http://scripturecatholic.com/confession.?

An Examination of Conscious can be found on line and in any Catholic church. The point of this is that the Church has said this is a legitimate Examination of Conscious by the Catholic Church. IT IS NOT THE SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION!!!

It's just a list of questions to help you see which sins were committed and where you are failing and need to improve. Here is an example of one on line:

http://www.fatima.org/essentials/requests/examconc.asp

Instead of reading your sarcastic source, try a real source:

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-iphone-app-aims-to-help-catholics-go-to-confession/

Confessions made through any form of long-distance communications technology are canonically invalid. The maker of this thing is lying to you.

IHS

Wrong!

The app 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.

You should not be spreading a lie.

http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/02/07/2011-02-07_forgive_me_iphone_new_app_okayed_by_catholic_ch urch.html

What does it do? It is not clear what the app does. No gadget can ever replace a priest.

A confession cannot be made on a phone (call or app or otherwise) just as watching mass on TV does not meet the Sunday obligation.

Just go to Church and do what you are supposed to do. Stop trying to be lazy about it.

Caution!

I could find no confirmation that this was approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.usccb.org/

This would also seem to violate Canon Law, Canon 964 states:

1. The proper place to hear sacramental confessions is a church or oratory.

2. The conference of bishops is to establish norms regarding the confessional; it is to take care, however, that there are always confessionals with a fixed grate between the penitent and the confessor in an open place so that the faithful who wish to can use them freely.

3. Confessions are not to be heard outside a confessional without a just cause.

For more information, see: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3F.HTM

With love in Christ.

I've already answered this once today. The app merely helps Catholics examine their consciences in preparation for confession. Obviously, a phone can't stand in for a priest.

@ Catholic:ICCollow my link concerning the Church's blessing for this new app.

This article does nothing but illustrate a fact that should already be clear. The media has the power to fabricate whatever "truth" they want.

This does not replace The Sacrament of Reconciliation, or even just the "confessing" part of the sacrament. This is just an aid to help a person examine their conscious. Much like the reading material often found in Missals and in the back of Catholic Bibles, made to help people think about how they may have caused offense or what they could have done better, or how they can resolve to be a better person.

That article is just another *fine* example of the socially irresponsible media spreading what ever story they felt the need to run with, true or not.

I saw this today also on Good Morning America. I do not know if it is true or not. But I do think it is a mistake.

The phone app is only a guide to help Catholics make a good confession to a priest, for that is the only way the sacrament can be received.

The app has the imprimatur of Bishop Kevin Rhoades, from Indiana. So the app itself is fine.