Vatican endorses iPhone prayer app
(Credit: iBreviary)Doing any last-minute holiday shopping for that religious yet tech-savvy someone in your life?
On Monday, the Vatican formally endorsed an iPhone application that allows users to load the Breviary prayer book, prayers for saying a Catholic Mass, and other prayers.
The application, called iBreviary, was created by Rev. Paolo Padrini and Web designer Dimitri Giani. It's available for purchase in Europe, and in the U.S. at Apple's App Store for 99 cents with free upgrades planned. Languages included in the U.S. version are Italian and English.
The Catholic Church is "learning to use the new technologies primarily as a tool or as a mean of evangelizing, as a way of being able to share its own message with the world," Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told the Associated Press.
If you read Italian (or are handy with translation software) you can read more about the iBreviary application on Dimitri Giani's Web site.
While the Catholic Church may still be lagging behind on several social and political issues, Pope Benedict XVI's attempts to modernize his organization's communications and reach out to youth through technology are widely known.
Last December the Vatican issued 10 driving commandments which ruffled some feathers at Ferrari.
The Pope is even down with using acronyms in his text messages, famously signing a mobile text sent to gatherers at last year's Catholic youth day rally in Sydney, Australia with "BXVI."
Candace Lombardi is a journalist who divides her time between the U.S. and the U.K. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgets, or industrial machines, she enjoys examining the moving parts that keep our world rotating. Email her at CandaceLombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET.




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by bmn_1213
December 24, 2008 8:01 AM PST
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(3 Comments)this is a site for things digital and electronic. your post, while sympathetic, doesn't belong here. what next? marching on over the New Orleans Saint Football web site to spill more bile b/c of their connection to the catholic church too? spam ABC for presenting It's a Wonderful Life?
shame on you for not knowing where you are when you release your criticisms into the wild. shame on you indeed.
merry christmas, especially to a troubled soul like you.