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Strict seminarians have to share an email account

August 31, 2009

Just like in the Stone Age! Seminarians at the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation (peopled by those called from the Neocatechumenal Way) on the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization campus in Denver (they can also be found all over the world, including Perth and Sydney) lead a more disciplined life than their [...]

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‘Tweeting Wall’? ‘Twestern Wall? ‘Twailing Wall’?

July 24, 2009

T’were awful puns, I know. Twitter user @TheKotel has established a free service whereby prayers tweeted on his profile will be printed and placed in the Western or ‘Wailing’ Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is by no means an ‘official’ service, and the associated website’s FAQ attributes it to “a young man [...]

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PopeTube

May 23, 2009

No longer do you need to make the long trek all the way to St Peter’s to see the Pope: now you can stream him direct to your smartphone! The Pope2You portal features links to their Facebook and iPhone apps, WikiCath and the Vatican’s YouTube channel. This is something of a turn-around for the Vatican, [...]

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Italian priests find excuse to use iPhones during sermons

December 23, 2008

Padre Paolo Padrini has teamed up with programmer and Hip-Hop enthusiast Dimitri Giani to create the iBreviary, an iPhone app that contains the Roman Catholic prayer breviary so priests don’t need to carry around those cumbersome books any more. I mean, have you seen a Bible recently? Those things are heavy! English priests be warned, [...]

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