Catholic Mobile
While other companies are desperately competing for content for cell phones, Catholic Mobile has jumped right in to provide guidance… for a fee.
Catholic Mobile provides families and individuals with inspiring Catholic content that will enrich their daily wireless experiences.
Bring your faith to your cell phone. Bible readings, prayers, saint of the day and more…
For $4.99 a month or 49 cents a pop, you can have devotionals sent to your cell phone, but is it the Catholic Church that is providing the content? This is the info from their “About Us” page:
Catholic Mobile is a partnership between Denver, Colorado based JP2 Media and The Missionaries of Faith Foundation (MOFF) , headquartered in San Diego, California.
What do I think about this? I’m not Catholic, so advertising phrases like, “Make your phone 100% Catholic, too,” don’t offend me. Would I like daily inspiration sent to my cell phone? Maybe? Am I willing to pay 5 bucks a month for it? Nope.
I have enough friends on Twitter to have daily inspiration sent to my phone for free.
I AM disturbed that everyone featured in the advertising is so very, very, white. Most of the models are so blond, that even I feel excluded, but don’t fear, they have segregated the races in a Spanish language edition: Móvil Católico.