Prepare for Christmas wiith a little Advent devotion on-the-go! Loading Advent apps on your mobile device is part of the season’s preparations–right up there with setting out your Advent wreath. Here are our top Advent mobile app picks for 2015. And, yes, they include Advent wreaths.   Pray-As-You-Go offers its popular audio Advent Retreat. This digital audio retreat is available […]

365 Days to Mercy  (Free) Apple and Android. Our Sunday Visitor is offering its free Year of Mercy app to help you in your journey through this special jubilee year designated by Pope Francis. The official Year of Mercy is December 8, 2015 to November 20, 2016, but daily inspiration, stories, and news will be in the […]

The month of November is traditionally a time to honor and pray for the departed souls, especially those who may have no one to pray for them. So let us take a look at an app designed to help us do just that. Catholic Meditations on Purgatory App  (Free) iOS only. Ideal for the month of All Souls and […]

Annoyed by those banal apps designed to occupy children at a restaurant or in the car? Check out the joyfully intelligent, visually engaging Catholic Words and Games ($4.99) iOS and Android. What better gift for mom or grandma on Mothers Day than an app for her phone or tablet that’s designed to engage those special children in her life […]

Feast days honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary are celebrated in some form each month of the year in the Roman Catholic calendar. We begin January 1 with the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. So, let’s look at a couple great Marian apps out there that can help you to foster a deeper devotion to […]

Want to add Catholic apps to your digital mobile device? Your search is over. We do all the work for you in locating quality Catholic apps and present them in a neat, orderly format for you to browse according to your needs and interests. Welcome to Catholic Apptitude, an online community created to serve the needs of people looking […]

You want to go to Christmas Mass this week but don’t know which Catholic church to attend? You’re not alone. Research shows that as many as half of all Catholics in the United States aren’t actively involved in a parish. The app, One Parish, is designed to help connect Catholics with a parish, even if […]

Did you know? Catholics in many countries make it a tradition on All Saints’ Day to gather at a local cemetery and decorate the graves with flowers or wreaths in anticipation of All Souls’ Day, which occurs on November 2. The month of November is traditionally a time to honor and pray for the departed souls who […]

iBreviary, one of the world’s leading apps providing the texts for the Liturgy of the Hours (or Divine Office), added a new language to its offerings this week: Arabic. That may seem to be a benign gesture. It isn’t. Consider that parts of the Islamic world have banned the printed versions of this form of prayer. […]

Get ready for Advent with nifty wreaths for your smart phone. We’ve got you covered for iOS and Android.  Virtual Advent Wreath ($.99) iOS. This is my favorite advent wreath app. It is as realistic as it gets. No prayers, a little background music (which you can turn off). You light the realistic candles in a […]