Vatican-approved app for the iPhone

The Vatican is endorsing new technology that brings the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications is embracing the iBreviary, an iTunes application created by a technologically savvy Italian priest, the Reverend Paolo Padrini, and an Italian web designer.

The application includes the Breviary prayer book - in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin and, in the near future, Portuguese and German. Another section includes the prayers of the daily Mass, and a third contains various other prayers.

After a free trial period in which the iBreviary was downloaded approximately 10,000 times in Italy, an official version was released earlier this month, Padrini said.

The application costs euro 0.79 ($A1.60), while upgrades will be free. Padrini's proceeds are going to charity.

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