South Carolina priest says there's 'no place' for AI after Asia Catholic Church uses it for synodal document

The Catholic Church in Asia recently turned to artificial intelligence to create a document for use by the wider Church in order that its members might more closely "walk together." The Vatican's official media outlet, Vatican News, published a report revealing that synod organizers in Asia had used artificial intelligence to help draft a final document, as Catholic news outlet The Pillar reported. A synod is a gathering, "traditionally of bishops," that helps the Church "to walk forward together in the same direction," notes the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation. The word "synod" comes from the Greek syn-hodos, meaning "the same way" or "the same path," it also notes. The Asian synodal continental assembly in Bangkok, Thailand, was held on Feb. 24-26 as part of the global synodal process.