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Pope Leo XIV asks priests to stop using AI tools like ChatGPT to write sermons
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Don't they have a 2000 years worth collection of sermons already written? Why bother writing new? Not like their religion has changed much since its founding...
I'm not religious at all...but I have attended a few churches.
Good pastors (or whatever a church calls their leaders) tie biblical stories to current events.
"Gospel", itself, literally means "good news".
So, yeah, maybe there could be some recycling, but with some tweaks.
Honestly this is the sort of thing that LLMs are really, really good at: You’re combining current events with bullshit stories anyway, so who cares if the output is a little bullshit?
Dunno why you're being downvoted. It's absolutely true.
Sermons are just motivational bullshit with bible verses mixed in, and there's billions of words already written on both of those subjects.
You don't really "get" church do you? A sermon is supposed to be a type of lecture on moral philosophy and ethics as it relates to current events. Taking a sermon from 200 AD that's talking about the evils of Roman gladiatorial games or a sermon from Medieval France about the black plague won't be relevant to a community facing ICE raids in Minneapolis.
Not only that, but in Catholic mass the Bible is reread every 3 years so the sermons are about the same crap every 3 years.
I don't have a perfect memory but I do have a good one, and I can confirm that the pastor at my parents church when I was growing up re-used sermons from multiple years prior.
So at least some recycle. As expected, they are still just as (ir)relevant.