Is the new Catholic confession app valid?

[spartanprez1357]

Does the New Confession App actually give the gift of absolution? it just seems like a whole new mess to me with the law not that it is digitally stored/transferred over the internet.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

No. As the Pontifical Council on Social Communications stated in its document The Church and Internet:

Virtual reality is no substitute for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the sacramental reality of the other sacraments, and shared worship in a flesh-and-blood human community. There are no sacraments on the Internet…

An app cannot substitute for the actual human interaction of the sacrament of confession.