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Fortify Your Phone With a Pope Francis App

Pilgrims will be able to follow the papal leader’s upcoming visit to Philadelphia (and plan their own) using an app developed by IBM.
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Pope Francis? There’s an app for that.

That’s right. Philadelphia is rolling out a new app in advance of the Pope’s upcoming visit in September. The app will help pilgrims find events and routes related to Pope Francis’s visit, along with information about cultural institutions and events for families. It will even translate the Pope’s speeches into various languages via captions.