Atonement 2.0
2011: Described as “the perfect aid for every penitent,” [the confessional app] offers users tips and guidelines to help them with the sacrament. Now senior church officials in both the UK and US have given it their seal of approval, in what is thought to be a first. The app takes users through the sacrament—in which Catholics admit their wrongdoings—and allows them to keep track of their sins.
—"Catholic Church Gives Blessing to iPhone App,“ BBC News
1994: I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach—if not the Kingdom of Heaven—the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.
—Umberto Eco
