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NUNDAY App-Making Nun
I love that Catholic sisters and nuns are increasingly present on the Internet and in social media and networks. Sister Maxine and I have seen astronomical growth since we first began in 2006 with blogging and social media and then adding a forum in 2008, podcasts in 2009, an iPhone app in 2010, and a newly updated forum in 2011. What’s next?!
When we started, there were very few nuns around but today I’m happy to see them in many areas of the Internet, social media, and technology! In fact, there is now a nun who develops software applications, commonly know as “apps”. Sister Catherine Wybourne is a Benedictine nun of Holy Trinity Monastery in Oxfordshire county in southeast England.
Rather than turning to traditional bake sales to raise money for the monastery she founded along with two other Benedictine sisters seven years ago, Wybourne is setting her sights on software application sales, and developing two apps for the iPhone.
She says one app will focus on the rule of Saint Benedict and will be free, and other is an app to help parish priests. The nun wouldn’t elaborate more on the idea, except to say she can’t believe nobody else has thought of the idea before.
“We are going to charge for our apps because we are in the middle of a fundraising campaign and we are trying to get people to get hold of the idea of philanthropic investment,” Wybourne said, sounding more like the banker she was for a few years before entering religious life in 1981. “So it would not be a good idea on the one hand to say please invest in us, and on the other, give everything away for free.” (source: Apple and the App-Making Nun by Margaret Rock, May 11, 2011)
You can find Sister Catherine on Twitter @DigitalNun and at Holy Trinity Monastery.
What other areas of the Internet, social media, and technology do you think nuns should get into?
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Hold the iPhone!! I had no idea there was an app for that! geez, ya miss one or two podcasts…
