Digital Necromancy: AI Avatars as Modern Spiritualism’s Return
Catholic News Agency (December 27, 2025) reports on 2wai’s AI application enabling digital recreations of deceased persons, featuring commentary from Fr. Michael Baggot, LC, and Notre Dame’s Brett Robinson. While acknowledging potential “spiritual dangers,” the analysis remains imprisoned within naturalistic assumptions, reducing the gravity of this technological necromancy to therapeutic concerns rather than theological anathema.







