Yesterday, newspaper headline-writers received an early Christmas present from the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The 'Catholic App', unveiled by Abp Cushley at the Vatican on Tuesday, is a map-based smartphone tool, that will help people find the nearest - and/or soonest - Mass or Confessions in the archdiocese.
A very good service, to be sure, for the faithful of south-east Scotland. Though perhaps not something to catch the imagination of the world's media... Until, that is, someone, somewhere had the bright idea to attach the nickname 'Sindr' to the new app. This is a play, of course, on the popular 'dating' - who I am to judge? - apps Tinder and Grindr. (Themselves, it might be noted, no strangers to recent Catholic-related news stories.)
