[NYer]

Ping!

[oh8eleven]

The messages are erased at the end of each confession.
Oh yeah, what could go wrong?
BTW, if Catholics were able to confess directly to God, the same way they pray, you wouldn't need the computer, the priest who can sign, or the priest for that matter.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned...”

“Just a moment, my son. You’ll have to be patient with me, I’m running Vista....”

[JoeFromSidney]

I wonder if this would have helped me. The day before I rotated back from Thailand in 1963, I tried to go to confession in a Thai church. I asked the priest if he understood English. He didn't. So I got up and left the box. Would Babelfish have translated my confession accurately enough?

[Gamecock]

Satire?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Just hire this guy.

[mlizzy]

I am for all practical purposes, deaf, and confession has been a challenge, but that hasn't stopped me. What I do is first tell the priest I'm unable to discern what's being said. They all nod okay.

Then I read off my list of sins which I keep during the week for memory's sake. I have no trouble speaking, however, sometimes I'm sorta loud (-lol- one day, before I adjusted my volume as per my husband's kind suggestion as he was waiting next in line, I think everyone else heard my sins too).

Anyway, I always do face-to-face, to try to read lips, and stay in the sequence of the confession, which isn't that hard to do. A couple of weeks ago, I asked the priest to list one portion of my penance, because I just wasn't picking it up, and he wrote down, "say your penance for Pope Francis." Most priests that I've seen won't write stuff down for you, though, but instead of using a computer system (I'm assuming this means confessing from home?!), the priest could simply have an IPhone or similar, and type out his suggestions right there "in the box." Then he could erase them. If he doesn't know how to type, he could just write them down, and throw away the paper afterwards. I would appreciate something like that.