OT: Well, that's settled.

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Feb 12 01:33:56 UTC 2011


At 7:17 PM -0500 2/11/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>A spokesman for the Vatican, Federico Lombardi, notes that
>
>"It is essential to understand that the rites of Penance require
>a personal dialogue between penitents and their confessor. It
>cannot be replaced by a computer application. I must stress
>this to avoid all ambiguity: *under no circumstance* is it possible
>to confess by iPhone!"
>
>
IOW, f2f confession isn't everything, it's the *only* thing.

LH

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