By National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 2026-02-21 12:00:00
Pope Leo
In a question-and-answer session with clergy from the diocese of Rome, the pope said priests should “resist the temptation to prepare sermons with artificial intelligence.”
“Like all the muscles in the body, if we don’t use them, if we don’t move them, they die if we don’t move them. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence also needs to be trained a little so as not to lose this ability,” Leo said in the closed session, according to a Feb. 20 report by Vatican News.
“To give a true sermon is to share the faith,” and artificial intelligence “will never be able to share the faith,” the pope added.
Leo has expressed interest in the topic of artificial intelligence and the dignity of work since the first week of his pontificate, telling the College of Cardinals shortly after his election in May that he had taken his name in honor of…
