{"id":24463,"date":"2011-02-09T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_bishops_approve_iphone_and_ipad_confession_app\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:40:32","slug":"london_times_bishops_approve_iphone_and_ipad_confession_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24463","title":{"rendered":"(London Times) Bishops approve iPhone and iPad Confession App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Catholic bishops have approved a new iPhone and iPad app that allows users to make confession with a virtual \u201cpriest\u201d\u009d over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfession: A Roman Catholic App\u201d\u009d, which went on sale through Apple\u2019s iTunes website for \u00c2\u00a31.19 last week, offers \u201ca personalised examination of conscience for each user\u201d\u009d, according to its makers. It asks penitents to list sins they have committed by misdeed or omission.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Church officials in the US and Britain have approved the app, which they say can be used by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article2904659.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Catholic bishops have approved a new iPhone and iPad app that allows users to make confession with a virtual \u201cpriest\u201d\u009d over the internet. \u201cConfession: A Roman Catholic App\u201d\u009d, which went on sale through Apple\u2019s iTunes website for \u00c2\u00a31.19 last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24463\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,175,199,154,177,108,364,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}