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Holy water on tap

February 28, 2010

Enterprising Italian inventor Luciano Marabese has developed an automatic holy water dispenser to be used until fears of Swine Flu (the H1N1 Virus) have abated. Many churches, including Milan’s cathedral, had suspended use of their holy water fonts following 15 deaths in the nation, so Marabese has been inundated with orders for the device. I [...]

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In Purgatoriorio

December 9, 2009

Apologies to Msrs Diamond, Yauch and Horovitz. David P often links on Facebook to places he’s discovered on Atlas Obscura, a site dedicated to weird and wonderful travel destinations around the world. One of these was the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, in Rome, which displays a number of bibles, prayerbooks and other [...]

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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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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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