Hasta La Gadget!

Remember that new confession app we told you about yesterday? Senior church officials in the U.S. were pretty keen on the thing, giving “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” the thumbs up. The Vatican, however, wants to clear something up.

Vatian spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told the press, “One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone.” The confessor and a priest have to be in the same room for the whole confession thing to work, apparently. He added, “This cannot be substituted by any IT application.”

The app itself is intended to supplement, not replace in-person confession.