Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession.

[Emit]

The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession.

The Confession program has gone on sale through iTunes for £1.19 ($1.99).

Described as "the perfect aid for every penitent", it offers users tips and guidelines to help them with the sacrament.

Now senior church officials in both the UK and US have given it their seal of approval, in what is thought to be a first.

The app takes users through the sacrament - in which Catholics admit their wrongdoings - and allows them to keep track of their sins.

It also allows them to examine their conscience based on personalised factors such as age, sex and marital status - but it is not intended to replace traditional confession entirely.

Instead, it encourages users to understand their actions and then visit their priest for absolution.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129

[somone]

1. Press 1 for masturbation.... Press 99 for murder

[damntexdem]

3. Press 666 for . . . ?

Oh wait -- that's the Pope's private number. ;-)

[damntexdem]

2. Why not just a salvation app? Cut out the middleman.

Oh, right -- the Church thrives on BEING the middleman. ;-)

[MilesColtrane]

4. iConfess?

Mea Culpa Cupertino?

CyberAbsolutionem?

Penitent Words With Friends?

[AlecBGreen]

5. wow, words fail me

lets take the holy act of repentance, boil it down to a computer program so people can "keep track of their sins" (WTF?!) and sell it for $1.99. Words truly cannot express how awful this sounds to me.