Asian Bishops Embrace AI: Technological Idolatry Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The Vatican News portal (December 10, 2025) reports on a three-day meeting in Hong Kong organized by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC). The event, attended by “Cardinal” Stephen Chow and antipope Leo XIV’s communication prefect Paolo Ruffini, promotes artificial intelligence (AI) as a “gift from God” for evangelization. Speakers urged ethical discernment while framing AI as essential to the Church’s mission, with Ruffini warning against “filter bubbles” but affirming technology’s role in Catholic media. The assembly concluded with plans to draft “pastoral guidelines” for AI use across Asian dioceses.









