4:50PM GMT 09 Feb 2011
Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said technology was not a substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest.
"One cannot speak in any way of confessing via iPhone," Father Lombardi said, adding that confession required the presence of the penitent and the priest.
"This cannot be substituted by any IT application," Lombardi added.
Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what is described as a "personalised examination of conscience for each user."
The application is not designed to replace going to confession but to help Catholics through the act.
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Some reports on its approval by the Catholic Church in the US suggested confession would now be possible via iPhone.
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