My reaction to all this:
I Bet the AI Pope Would Be Preferable
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Amen. My 98 year old mother used to say “I’ve lived too long.” And that was 20 years ago.
The nice thing about the priests we have now is that they are human. We no longer assume they are perfect, as we might have in another era. Too many people think technology is similarly perfect and are rushing headlong into AI everything.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Garbage in, garbage out.
CS Lewis said in the Chronicles of Narnia:
when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
Even before I was Christian I knew enough to know this is wisdom.
Wait, is that supposed to be a parody? Even the most obedient and polite Catholic has got to recognize that when Pope Francis speaks to the press on an airplane, he could say absolutely anything.