St Joseph’s School in Balclutha has launched a smartphone app to stay in touch with parents. Teacher Danique Richards said she was contacted by the app’s developer, Snapp Mobile, at the end of last year to see if the school might be interested. She was hooked almost instantly and took the idea to the board Read more
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Pushpay: Kiwi ingenuity creates electronic collection plate
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
A fast growing New Zealand-based company has developed Pushpay, an app that allows you to use your mobile to give a donation to your church in ten seconds. Pushpay provides mobile tools that help make payments easy between consumers and merchants and is geared to mobile charitable giving. Some 93 percent of Pushpay’s merchant clients are Read more
Apps for Advent
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015In Advent 2014, more than 50,000 people participated and 17,000 pictures were posted. In 2015, AdventWord
New IPhone app creates ‘digital collection plate’
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015Catholics in San Francisco are now able to donate to their local church using a free iPhone app. The “digital collection plate” stems from a partnership between the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Evergive. It is also available on Android. The app also simplifies creating new donation categories for special causes, be they for Nepal Read more
Apps for Lent
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Looking for prayer and penance ideas for this year’s Lenten journey? Or a faithful guide and friendly reminder to practice virtue, do good works and read Scripture? Whatever you’re searching for to help you draw closer to Jesus Christ these 40 days of Lent, there’s an app to help you. “It’s a beautiful thing to Read more
Pope Francis comic book becomes an App
Friday, February 14th, 2014The success of a kids’ comic book about Pope Francis has prompted its Italian publisher to turn it into an iPad App for the English-speaking world. Called “Pope Francis Comics,” the app offers a kid-friendly mini-bio of the Argentine pontiff and 13 catchy phrases based on tweets or speeches by the pope. Kids can test Read more
New App promoting Catholic social teaching
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
The Church’s social teaching, news and commentary are now available at the App Store. The Catholic Social Teaching App is a product of The Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington DC think tank. The App provides a selection of papal encyclicals ranging from Pope Francis’ 2013 “Lumen Fidei” back to Pope Leo XII’s 1891 Read more
Rosary Plus: My New Favorite Rosary App
Friday, August 10th, 2012
In the course of my search for the perfect rosary app, I have downloaded and tried dozens. So far, only three have made the cut to “Essential” level, and only iRosary remains of the three that were on the list when I wrote that article. But now, thanks to the new Rosary Plus iOS app from St. Read more
Liturgical use of iPads not banned universally, but best avoided
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
There have been some local decisions about the liturgical use of iPads and other electronic devices, but so far there have been no pronouncement about their use from Rome which would apply to the church world-wide. Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum university note that “at least one cardinal, celebrating in his Read more