In The Name of The Father, The Son and…The Iphone?

Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, it would appear that the digital world is now inching closer to being that playground for Socons and theocrats. 

On the first day he created a YouTube channel. On the second day he embraced social networking. On the third day, the Pope went mobile.

It seems that the Pope Ratzy has blessed this new  app for iphone and ipads called ‘confession’ and for two bucks, well, let’s let PC Magazine explain the rest, I certainly can’t do it justice.

In addition to a step-by-step guide to the sacrament, Confession explores your conscience through a personalized examination of your sex, age, and marital status. Password-protected profiles mean that more than one sinner can confess with privacy.

Despite looking almost as much fun as the real thing, the app doesn’t aim to replace traditional confession—instead, it’s a tool to help users understand their actions before visiting their priest. To this, the church approves: in what appears to be a first, senior officials in America bestowed their seal of approval to a mobile phone application.

As DeBeauxOs has pointed out yesterday, Suzy ALLCAPSLOCK is prime example of one who has embraced it to propogandize Catholicism to extremes, not to mention, her fetus fetishes and of course, showing off  the photoshopping expertise of those wingnuts who use their talents to enhance images of bloody fetuses and such.

I’m also sure John Paceco of  “Socombust” will be ga ga giddy that he now has gift ideas for his family now.

What’s even funnier is that clerics actually believe this app will help folks come back to the ever rapidly declining  Catholic church.  Yes, a brand new shiny  iphone and ipad app will surely erase any memories of cover-ups of priests’ nasty acts with children, as well as other transgressions.  But, then, I’ve stopped underestimating the power of  how all things shiny can pardon the worst of sins.

UPDATE:  I stand corrected. It seems that Pope Ratzy hisself has not approved the app. Only some American bishops have. More at Dammit Janet.