About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church.

AI-generated videos and audios of Pope Leo XIV are populating rapidly online, racking up views as platforms struggle to police them. An AFP investigation identified dozens of YouTube and TikTok ...

Pope Leo says the Catholic Church has answers. The new pope has an early focus: Artificial intelligence as a disruptive challenge to human dignity. May 16, 2025 ...

Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope When asked about the image, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York who is friendly with Trump ...

If you just can't wait for the world's most secretive election to run its course, MailOnline has used AI to predict who will be voted in as the head of the Catholic Church following Pope Francis ...

As a Catholic I find such terms in relation to the church to be offensive. When I pray the Nicene Creed , a statement that summarizes the tenets of my faith, I say, “I believe in one, holy ...

Trump, a non-Catholic, shared the image last week on his Truth Social account. The AI-generated meme of himself as the pope, dressed in white robes and gilded gold just weeks after the death of ...

Pope Leo XIV warns that AI may threaten human dignity, urging the Catholic Church to respond with ethical clarity and protect the vulnerable in a digital world.

The Catholic Church has exemplified what happens when we ignore the civil ramifications of the tunnel vision of man-made religion. The AI picture nauseated me.

In posting an AI image of himself as pope, President Trump 'makes a juvenile effort to boost his ego and mocks our traditions of mourning and selection of a new pope,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

ROME—The last time the Catholic Church’s cardinals picked a pope, they wanted an outsider to overhaul a scandal-plagued Vatican. They got more of a disrupter in Pope Francis than many had ...