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Pope tells priests to stop using AI to write their sermons

Rob Beschizza
Feb 28, 2026
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Forget stochastic parrots: how about periphrastic priests? Pope Leo XIV, in an address in Rome, warned Catholic clergy against using AI to pad out their sermons: “To give a true homily is to share faith,” Leo said. “[machines] will never be able to share faith.”

He asked clergy to resist “the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelli…

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