Pope Francis and Vatican launch new mobile app for Catholics
Missio, an app designed by the Pontifical Mission Societies, offers a Catholic perspective on world news. The Pope officially unlocked the app at the Vatican on Friday.
BY CAROL KURUVILLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013
Pope Francis launches the smartphone app Missio during an audience at the Vatican. Holding the iPad for the pope is Father Andrew Small, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States. The free app features homilies from Pope Francis as well as Catholic news from the Vatican's missionary news agency and other providers.
Are you a diehard Pope Francis fan? There's an app for that.
The Pope has propelled the Catholic church into the smartphone era with a fresh new mobile app. The Vatican's Clementine Hall buzzed with excitement Friday as His Holiness used the Keys of St. Peter to unlock Missio (the Latin word for mission), an app designed by the church's missionary branch.
