Confessions by Smartphone: The Vatican’s “No” fsspx.news

In an interview with the Italian edition of Osservatore Romano on December 5, 2020, Cardinal Piacenza raised the issue of confession using a smartphone, in the legitimate absence of a priest.

“We can confirm the probable invalidity of the absolution imparted through such means,” the high prelate explained. “In fact, the real presence of the penitent is lacking, and there is no real conveyance of the words of absolution; there are only electric vibrations that reproduce the human word.”…

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