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Vatican to Launch iPhone App

CC-licensed photo by David Paul Ohmer.

In an effort to reach out to young, tech-savvy Catholics, the Holy See will launch an iPhone app to coincide with its World Communications Day, celebrated May 24.

The Vatican app was created by Father Paolo Padrini, the priest who developed iBrevary, an app that puts morning prayer, evening prayer and night prayers on the iPhone and a Facebook application called Praybook.

“The pope is inviting us to promote a culture of dialogue, of respect and friendship, especially among young people,” Archbishop Claudio Celli told Catholic News.

The initiative to put the Pope in your pocket comes after  the Vatican youtube channel and will launch from a website (not yet live) called www.pope2you.net. So far the app lets people send and receive “virtual postcards” of Pope Benedict along with inspiring excerpts from the pope’s various speeches.  No word on whether its gratis or, like the iBreviary, will cost $.99.

Would you download the Vatican app?

Via Catholic News

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Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek, and since 1999 on her site, Zoomata. If you're so inclined, friend her on Facebook or connect on Linked in.

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4 comments

    dear Cult of Mac,
    tha application ibreviary not cost $99 but $0,99.

    Pope2you is not an app. It’s a portal.
    That contain an app donwloadable from app store named h20news…

    It’s contain video news of the Pope, and the Vatican….

    NO WAY.

    Why would I need an app to locate Nazi splinter meetings, and the proximity and social habits of young boys?

    Hmmmm ….

    The leader of a group whose majority of members live in poverty so acute they don’t even have water clean enough to *bathe* in much less drink, and whom he encorages to live a povertystricken lifestyle — yet lives in a palace crafted by the world’s fines artisans, is surrounded day after day by priceless artifacts of antiquity & who eats food prepared by literally the world’s fines chefs 3 times a day then shits it out into a solid gold toiletbowl — is asking me for money ?

    Go fuck thyself, Joey ….

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