What dioceses allow.

Archdiocese of Seattle

2026 policy for parishes and schools

• Every AI tool needs formal review and documented approval by local leadership before use.
• The review covers licensing, privacy and security, and fit with the Church's mission.
• Names Copilot, under the Archdiocesan Microsoft license, as approved and secure.
• Approves Magisterium for catechetical and theological research, with human review.

Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Administrative Handbook, section 10.10

• Applies to everyone who works, volunteers, or ministers in the Archdiocese, including parishes and schools.
• Log in to AI tools with a work-provided email.
• Get prior approval before using a tool the Archdiocese or parish has not provided.
• Gives examples such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Grok.

Diocese of Paterson

Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy

• Applies to employees, contractors, and volunteers.
• AI output must be reviewed for accuracy, and a person makes final decisions.
• AI must not be used to simulate or falsify sacramental records, or with information that could violate clergy confidentiality.
• Includes detailed rules for HIPAA, FERPA, COPPA, and CIPA data.

Pope Leo XIV

Encyclical Letter, signed May 15, 2026

Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. It describes AI as a valuable tool that calls for vigilance, and warns against confusing it with human intelligence: “These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence” (99).

Church teaching

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, January 28, 2025

Antiqua et Nova is the Vatican's note on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence.