Do iPads Help You Pray?
July 9, 2010by Greg Burke
While it’s true that Pope Benedict XVI – a seriously old-fashioned pen-and-paper type of professor – has encouraged Church officials to embrace the new media, how far can it go?
In other words, is there anything wrong with an iPad on the altar? Don Paolo Padrini doesn’t think so. He’s a parish priest in northern Italy who’s developed an iPad application for the Roman Missal, the main liturgical book used at Mass.
“The iPad can’t ever substitute paper books, even though no one should be surprised that an iPad can help the priest in some way during celebrations,” Don Paolo told Fox News on a visit to the parish of San Giorgio in Stazzano, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
Padrini, who also developed a successful app of the priest’s daily prayers, the iBreviary, for the iPhone, said his idea with the missal was not to do away with big books, but to be a help, especially when priests are traveling. the rest image
In other words, is there anything wrong with an iPad on the altar? Don Paolo Padrini doesn’t think so. He’s a parish priest in northern Italy who’s developed an iPad application for the Roman Missal, the main liturgical book used at Mass.
“The iPad can’t ever substitute paper books, even though no one should be surprised that an iPad can help the priest in some way during celebrations,” Don Paolo told Fox News on a visit to the parish of San Giorgio in Stazzano, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
Padrini, who also developed a successful app of the priest’s daily prayers, the iBreviary, for the iPhone, said his idea with the missal was not to do away with big books, but to be a help, especially when priests are traveling. the rest image
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