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Artificial Intelligence

Parish explores pitfalls of artificial intelligence

Parish explores pitfalls of artificial intelligence

Luke Mandato · February 27, 2026

Blessed Trinity Parish is welcoming a cybersecurity specialist to help parishioners interested in harnessing AI’s unique benefits while staying ever-vigilant against its growing dangers.
Pope Leo XIV tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok

Pope Leo XIV tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok

Courtney Mares · February 23, 2026

Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek "likes" on social media platforms like TikTok.
For its 400th anniversary, St. Peter's Basilica to get 21st-century upgrade, Vatican announces

For its 400th anniversary, St. Peter's Basilica to get 21st-century upgrade, Vatican announces

Courtney Mares · February 17, 2026

Four hundred years after its consecration, St. Peter's Basilica is getting a 21st-century upgrade, with the Vatican unveiling plans for AI-powered translation services, expanded pilgrim access and high-tech structural monitoring.
Challenge will be connecting AI with spiritual realm

Challenge will be connecting AI with spiritual realm

Quinton Amundson · January 8, 2026

Artificial intelligence became so culturally ubiquitous over the past calendar year that Time magazine crowned these technologies mimicking human intelligence as the “2025 Person of the Year.”
Catholic Church’s guidance can be useful for AI

Catholic Church’s guidance can be useful for AI

Quinton Amundson · January 8, 2026

Priest and bioethicist Fr. Michael Baggot, a prominent Catholic voice on artificial intelligence, urges more faithful to become active developers and ethical contributors in the field in 2026.
AI encyclical could be Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum

AI encyclical could be Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum

Quinton Amundson · November 27, 2025

Travis Callaway, like many with such interests, eagerly awaits an expected encyclical from Pope Leo XIV on artificial intelligence.
Are Catholics ready for AI?

Are Catholics ready for AI?

Quinton Amundson · October 20, 2025

“The danger isn’t that AI will suddenly wake up, it’s that we’ll forget that it hasn’t.”
Church can't be 'AI-illiterate,' McGrattan says

Church can't be 'AI-illiterate,' McGrattan says

Quinton Amundson · October 20, 2025

Calgary Bishop William McGrattan said the Church cannot ignore the profound implications of the rapidly advancing technological revolution that is artificial intelligence.
AI symposium asks: Are Catholics ready?

AI symposium asks: Are Catholics ready?

Benefits, risks to be examined in conversation on ethical and moral leadership

Quinton Amundson · October 11, 2025

St. Mary’s University and the Diocese of Calgary are joining forces to advance the conversation about Catholic ethical and moral leadership on artificial intelligence with an Oct. 17 and 18 symposium titled “AI Is Transforming Society: Are Catholics Ready?”
Fear not AI, but educate yourself, priest says

Fear not AI, but educate yourself, priest says

Quinton Amundson · September 22, 2025

One of the first things Fr. Philip Larrey learned at the start of a 20-year run teaching philosophy, logic and epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome is that “you never tell a bishop what to do.”