Catholic Church Leaders Want To Capture Young People By Launching A New App Nicknamed 'Sindr' Specially For Confessions

Of the many things I find absurd about the Catholic Church, my alma mater, one of the most unfathomable is that they expect us to go into a dark, usually too-hot booth with an adult dude we don’t even know and tell him everything we’ve done wrong. Confession is a little bit like therapy, but without the benefit of actually helping you avoid future wrongdoings; there’s no analysis, and penance is usually some variation of praying ten Hail Marys or, for the particular baddies, the whole dang rosary.






This week, though, a technologically savvy Archbishop in Scotland figured out a way to help Catholics find a better confessional booth and help the Church cater to millennials, a group it’s been bleeding like the stigmata on a Sunday. Time reports that Edinburgh Archbishop Leo Cushley invented an app which “lets users search for the nearest Holy Mass, confessional or diocesanal statistics”and “guide the faithful from their current location to the nearest Catholic Church.” It is called “The Catholic App,” which is deeply unfortunate. Cleverer people on the internet and in the media have been calling it “Sindr,” though that implies it allows you to confess to your sins, receive your penance, and be absolved all via your phone—frankly, a much better idea and one they should consider implementing. (Confession: who has time for it? Plus sometimes there are lines.)

While the Catholic App seems basically like a religious combo of Google Maps, Yelp, and Push Notifications, it does at least bring the institution into the 21st Century, something it’s been needing to do for literal ages (literal ages), particularly if it’s going to compete with all the casj and chill newfangled party churches and also Pentacostalism. Archbishop Cushley attempted to sweeten the deal to Vatican Radio, calling his invention “a little bit of smart technology that could make a big impact on how the Catholic Church brings the mercy of God and the joy of the Gospel to our contemporary world.” Deus ex machina, little lambs.

Mother Teresa Declared a Saint Today by Pope Francis

Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa in front of a crowd of 120,000 onlookers at the Vatican on Sunday morning. The iconic Albanian nun, now officially St. Teresa of Calcutta, has been venerated for her work caring for those who were sick and poor in India and around the world, with 517 clinics in 100 countries at the time of her death.

Hundreds of handmade signs littered St. Peter’s Square in support of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity order. Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. “Always a saint in our hearts, now a saint for all the world,” read one such tribute. Monday marks the 19th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death, making her canonization one of the fastest in the church’s history—thanks, in part, to the late Pope John II. He expedited the process and approved her first miracle after her 1997 death. (In order to be declared a saint, the Catholic Church must agree the candidate lived virtuously and performed at least two miracles through the intercession of God.)

Pope Francis secured Teresa’s legacy by approving her second miracle late last year and by canonizing her today. "She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity," Pope Francis said. "She made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime of poverty they created."

"We may have some difficulty in calling her 'Saint' Teresa," Pope Francis added. "Her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful, that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother."

But very few legacies are without controversy, and there are other reasons some will find difficulty calling Teresa a "saint." Some have raised questions aboutwhere the money donated to her order by those "powers of the world" came from—and where it went: Several doctors' accounts reported that her clinics for the sick provided inadequate care in "unfit" conditions.

Today, nuns and priests continue her order's work around the world.

“May this tireless worker of mercy help us to increasingly understand that our only criterion for action is gratuitous love, free from every ideology and all obligations, offered freely to everyone without distinction of language, culture, race or religion,” the Pope said.

Late Mother Teresa Officially Becomes a Saint This Weekend [Video]

For some time now we have been inundated with the news of Rome getting prepared to make Mother Teresa a saint and finally it is happening this weekend probably on Sunday 4th Sempteber, 2016. She is now going to be a saint. See the video shown below of Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia.
She was known as a woman of love for the poor and homeless all of the world.

Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. On 19 October 2003, she was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". A second miracle was credited to her intercession by Pope Francis, in December 2015, paving the way for her to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Her canonisation is scheduled for 4 September 2016, a day before the 19th anniversary of her death.

A controversial figure both during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was widely admired by many for her charitable works. She was both praised and criticised for her anti-abortion views.She also received criticism for conditions in the hospices she ran.^[ Her authorised biography was written by Indian civil servant Navin Chawla and published in 1992.