Vatican’s Salamanca Congress: Syncretism of Faith and Algorithms Exposed
The VaticanNews portal (November 14, 2025) reports on an international congress in Salamanca titled “Internal Communication in Catholic and Pontifical Institutions: limits and challenges.” Organized by the Pontifical University of Salamanca and the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the event focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and communication strategies within Catholic institutions. Speakers included Paolo Ruffini (prefect of the Dicastery for Communication) and Paul Tighe (secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education), who framed AI as a “gift” requiring ethical governance while advocating for a “new humanism” to bridge “the civilization of machines” and “Christian civilization.” The congress emphasized networking among Catholic universities to develop interdisciplinary approaches to technological challenges.









