Absolution by iPad? Confession, Forgiveness, Are Indulgences Next?

Has the Vatican found a new way to address the
shortage of priests by turning to silicon?
Unless I've missed something in history, in the
Middle Ages Martin Luther became so incensed
by the Roman Catholic Church selling indulgences
- basically get out of hell for a fee - that he split
Christianity into Catholic and Protestant.

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