Why Catholics Can and Should Resist AI

In this way, Catholics have a built-in capacity to lead the culture against a post-human future. Amid all the tired discussions of the “use” of technology in evangelism, the most important thing we can say is that being Catholic is simply impossible in any kind of virtual or artificial sense, or even with much reliance on technology at all. Until the God-man returns, his men will have to stand at his altars and sit in his confessionals. His people will have to present themselves, bodies and souls, to partake of his body, blood, soul, and divinity in person every seven days. They must bring their babies to the water of the font and the oil of chrism. They must open their mouths and use their tongues, first to utter their sins and then receive the Sacrament upon them.