Pope Leo Artificial Intelligence Register Editorial

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Publish Date: 2026-05-19 13:11:00

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Pope Leo XIV listens to a question from Christopher Pantelakis from the Archdiocese of Las Vegas during a meeting livestreamed from the Vatican on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, with 16,000 young people gathered at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Artificial is real, a seemingly paradoxical preamble.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is our reality. Without getting bogged down in the semantics of the Information Age or the Digital Age or the Age of Intelligence, let’s just agree that the past 30-plus years of internet, social media, and, now, artificial intelligence have systematically revolutionized – and continue to revolutionize – the way we communicate, work, study, learn, share information, and, quite frankly, live.

In fact, while writing this article, the internet in my office went down, forcing me to stare at a spinning wheel for 15 minutes while I pondered my next move. Alas, with the internet restored, I can proceed.

Generally speaking, the days of reading the hardbound World Book Encyclopedia or sitting in a dimly lit library cell scanning microfiche are gone. Thanks to the Information Age, that knowledge is likely available at the mercy of our thumb-tips and a smartphone.

During his inaugural year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV has addressed dozens of Church – and worldly – topics with his apostolic exhortation, letters, speeches, weekly Sunday Angeluses, interviews, and more.

While Pope Leo’s repeated calls for peace and contradictions of U.S. officials have dominated several news cycles, his seemingly innocuous Q/A session with four priests of the Diocese of Rome on Thursday, Feb. 19, generated a noteworthy position, in my opinion.

According to Vatican News, which published excerpts from the Q/A on Friday, Feb. 20, Pope Leo warned against “the temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence.”

“Like all the muscles in the body, if we…

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