With New App, Spaniards Can Summon Priests Like Ubers
Maybe you’re wandering around one of Spain’s leafy plazas when you get that guilty itch. Perhaps you were being covetous, or taking the Lord’s name in vain; maybe you just forgot to call your mother again. Or maybe you’ve been busy retweeting fake news (which Pope Francis himself recently condemned). You’ve strayed from the path and given into sin — and need to confess.HT: spotted at Marginal Revolution on the way to the robot story (to follow).
Luckily, Spanish priests have your back. On Thursday, a new app called Confesor Go launched, allowing remorseful Catholic users to order up a confession as easily as an Uber or a Tinder date. The app, developed by Father Ricardo Latorre, detects a user’s location and plots a route to the nearest priest who’s signed up with the service. You can confess in a church, or, for convenience’s sake, in a public place, like a plaza, park, or even right on the street.
Is looks like the Catholic Church’s latest effort to approach the smartphone generation. Pope Francis has often admonished priests not to turn off the faithful by being boring or inaccessible — and nothing is more accessible than being summoned like a cab....MORE
The Catholics are actually the Lyft of the priest hailing biz as the Japanese Buddhists were reported to have had a similar service at least three months earlier.
