Vatican embraces iPhone for prayers

BANGALORE, INDIA: So the Vatican also finally embraced the way of the iPhone! In a recent decision The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, decided to endorse the iBreviary, an iTunes application created by an Italian priest, the Rev.

Paolo Padrini, and an Italian Web designer, say reports. The iPhone application includes the Breviary prayer book — in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin and, in the near future, Portuguese and German. Another section includes the prayers of the daily Mass, and a third contains various other prayers.

As per reports, iBreviary was downloaded approximately 10,000 times in Italy and official version was released earlier this month, said Padrini. The application would costs euro 0.79 ($1.10), while upgrades would be free. Padrini added that revenue from the new technology would be going to charity.

According to Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the church "is learning to use the new technologies primarily as a tool or as a means of evangelizing, as a way of being able to share its own message with the world."

Interesting are the ways of the iPhone!!