The Coptic Pope in Egypt, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria has issued a ban on priests taking confessions over the telephone for fear that the government's security agents may be bugging the phone lines.

You will have to forgive the lack of commentary on this from my end. There are a lof of directions that I can take this, but none of them speak anything more than a slanted opinion that does not help anyone. From Cellular News via Phone Report 2.0: The Vatican has warned that mobile phones are bad for your soul. The Pope's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi warned in a weekly address that modern ...

The Vatican’s press office director and Pope spokesperson Father Federico Lombardi, has claimed that mobile phones and the internet contribute to the spiritual death of a person, as they make it difficult to “protect silence and to nourish the interior dimension of life”. The priest said that “today this is a very grave threat, and

The Vatican has warned that mobile phones are bad for your soul. Cellular News reports. The Pope's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi warned in a weekly address that modern life is not leaving time for people to cultivate their spiritual dimension. Without a spiritual life "you will lose your soul" he said on the weekly Vatican TV program, Octavia Dies. ... In the age of the cell phone and t...

The Vatican has warned that mobile phones are bad for your soul. The Pope's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi warned in a weekly address that modern life is not leaving time for people to cultivate their spiritual dimension.

Pope Benedict XVI to use SMS text messages

World Youth Day is upon us. And, you know what that means. Attendees of the World Youth Day (WYD) event in Australia can expect to start receiving SMS text messages from the Holy See himself, Pope benedict XVI. Telstra is making it possible for the Catholic Church to send text messages of encouragement to all those

Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer walls" have been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse in Australia, where fo

AFP - Pope Benedict XVI took a new hi-tech road to spreading his message Tuesday, sending a mobile phone text to pilgrims attending World Youth Day celebrations in Australia, organisers said.

The Pope will be on his way to Australia later this year for World Youth Day, and he's already got plans to text followers when he lands. According to Aussie mobile operator Telstra, the Pope is planning to send daily “inspirational text messages” to his followers. His Holiness is evidently a bit of a fan of