The following is an article from The Catholic Herald
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a world that boasts continual technological change, the iPhone by Apple has gained near-iconic status. Even Apple boasts there are more than 140 million applications — or “apps,” in Apple-speak — that users can obtain for their phones.
It only follows that there would be some clever Catholics who have devised apps to bolster people’s faith.
Dave Brown of Bend, Ore., invented a virtual rosary-beads app as a sign of thanksgiving after doctors found a successful bone-marrow match for his kindergarten-age daughter in 2008, curing her of her leukemia.
Brown and his wife, Jackie, prayed the rosary frequently through their daughter’s treatment, even though one parent was in Bend keeping the home fires burning while the other stayed with the desperately ill girl in Portland, Ore. How? With iPhones that Dave Brown bought so they could talk and send photos and video.
CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec
