sheetsadam1 — 1 month ago(February 26, 2026 06:22 PM)

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pope-leo-demands-priests-stop-36787011
Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, delivered a chilling warning about letting AI write sermons and spending too much time online worrying about "likes" on social media.
"To give a true homily is to share faith," Pope Leo XIV said, adding that artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith."
He asked clergy to resist “the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence." Adding, "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," Leo said in the closed-door meeting, later published by Vatican News.
He continued to say that seeking “illusion on the internet, on TikTok” can't replace an authentic spiritual connection.
The Pope's warning comes with the Vatican's debut of a translation system powered by AI that will translate liturgical celebrations in St. Peter’s Basilica in real time in up to 60 languages.
However, Pope Leo XIV also pushed the importance of learning and studying to counteract overreliance on AI. "Study in our life must be permanent, continuous. When I hear someone tell me—this is true, a priest told me this—‘I have not opened a book since I left the seminary.’ My goodness, I thought, how sad!" the Pope stressed.
A little over a week ago, Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.
Leo revived the traditional prayer and procession that Pope Francis largely delegated to others in his final years. He walked with dozens of monks, priests, bishops and cardinals from one Roman church to another and then sprinkled ashes on the heads of cardinals during Mass.
Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting and reflection, starts a season of self-denial and repentance from sin known as Lent. The 40-day period leads up to observances of Jesus’ death on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter.
In his homily, Leo offered a meditation on sin and said the ashes that Christians receive bear the “weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war.”
“This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking and ancient local wisdom, the ashes of that sense of the sacred that dwells in every creature,” he said.
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