{"id":214644,"date":"2026-05-15T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-to-address-ai-and-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:25:08","slug":"pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-to-address-ai-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-to-address-ai-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first encyclical to address AI and faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/life\/faith-and-religion\/pope-leo-xiv-set-to-release-first-encyclical-focused-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-church\">Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first encyclical to address AI and faith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/life\/faith-and-religion\/pope-leo-xiv-set-to-release-first-encyclical-focused-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-church\">https:\/\/www.10news.com\/life\/faith-and-religion\/pope-leo-xiv-set-to-release-first-encyclical-focused-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-church<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 17:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.10news.com\">www.10news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV is expected to sign his first encyclical after beginning his second year as leader of the Catholic faith.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical is anticipated to focus on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the church and the lives of the faithful.<\/li>\n<li>An encyclical outlines the church&#8217;s position on doctrine, morality, or social issues and is a significant message within the church, though it does not carry the weight of infallible dogma.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV has spoken frequently about AI and has been included in TIME&#8217;s list of the most influential people in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Andrew Chesnut notes the significance of the pope addressing AI, especially in the context of recent chatbot innovations.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV has cautioned against using AI to prepare homilies or to seek social media &#8220;likes,&#8221; emphasizing the need for true human growth.<\/li>\n<li>He has urged students to use AI prudently, ensuring that they can still think, create, and act independently if AI were to disappear.<\/li>\n<li>The pope follows the path of Pope Francis who established AI guidelines and monitoring structures at the Vatican.<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican is expected to release the encyclical in the next few weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first encyclical to address AI and faith https:\/\/www.10news.com\/life\/faith-and-religion\/pope-leo-xiv-set-to-release-first-encyclical-focused-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-church Publish Date: 2026-05-15 17:26:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4871dca\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7935x4166+0+564\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fewscripps.brightspotcdn.com%2Fc9%2Fed%2F9dfa804f4f209163a9f44c34fbd1%2Fap26113632135901.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214649,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214644\/revisions\/214649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}