The vote to select a new pope may remain shrouded in secrecy — the Vatican even installed special jamming equipment to block cellphone use inside the Sistine Chapel — but for the Catholic faithful who want to follow the papal election in real time, there's more than one app for that.
Since Pope Benedict XVI announced he was resigning last month, apps such as Conclave, iConclave, Popechart and Conclave Alert have sprung up, allowing mobile and tablet users to view photographs and biographies of all the eligible pope candidates, watch live webcams in St. Peter's Square for signals of white smoke for a new pope, follow the papal chatter on Twitter and vote on their pick for a new church leader.
"The interesting dynamic this time around is the conclave has become a much more communal event," said Brandon Vogt, a Catholic blogger based in Orlando. "Tools like this will allow people to watch in real time. Now you're going to have millions of people who will know right when it happens. As soon as the pope is announced, we're going to have access to an incredible amount of material. I'll be able to talk immediately on Twitter and Facebook with hundreds of my friends. In 2005, those sort of reactions took days and weeks to roll out."
Vogt told the Herald he plans to watch webcam feeds from the Vatican and has signed up with Pope Alarm, a text and email alert, which advertises that "When the smoke goes up, you'll know what's going down."
Vogt, one of the bloggers invited to the Vatican in 2011 to consult with church leaders on how to use new technology, said the church has embraced social media and even released its own Pope App in January complete with speeches and the pope's event schedule.
In recent years other Catholic leaders have been following the lead of technology trailblazers such as Boston's Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the first cardinal with a personal blog and the author of the foreword for Vogt's book, "The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet."
"This is really the first crop of cardinals that are Internet savvy with 10 cardinals that have personal Twitter accounts," said Vogt. "I think we're seeing a new movement with the cardinals and the pope and his successor leading the way."
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