Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming humanity’s teacher, storyteller, and spiritual guide. In the digital world, where billions scroll through videos every day, AI is shaping how they learn about life, morality, and even God. If the Catholic Church does not actively shape this technology, it will be guided by voices indifferent, or even hostile, to the Gospel.
This is already happening. A recent NPR report examined Pray.com’s “AI Bible” series, which uses generative AI to create visually striking videos depicting Scripture. One episode portrays a section of Revelation where “buildings crumble and terrified-looking people claw their way through the rubble… then come monsters, including a seven-headed dragon that looks like something out of a Dungeons and Dragons rulebook” (NPR).
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These productions have drawn massive attention, over 750,000 views in two months, and their audience is “mostly under 30 and skew male, though not too heavily,” according to Ryan Beck, Pray.com’s Chief Technology Officer (NPR). Beck explained that viewers are writing in, saying these AI Bible stories are “really transforming their life… spiritually and mentally” (NPR).
But some theologians warn of dangers. Brad East, professor of theology at Abilene Christian University, argued that turning the Word of God into Marvel-style entertainment risks stripping it of its sacred power: “It’s depressing that anyone would think that approach to biblical material was in any way spiritually edifying” (NPR).
Others see potential. John Dyer, a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, told NPR that Christians have always embraced new technologies to spread the Gospel, from scrolls to the printing press, and sees AI as “the latest example of that willingness to embrace new ways of storytelling.”
The Catholic Response: Truth Must Guide AI
AI is not neutral. It is being trained right now on content that will become the primary way future generations encounter Scripture, morality, and the meaning of life. If those sources present Christianity as fantasy, distortion, or mere entertainment, the next generation will inherit a faith that has been hollowed out.
The Catholic Church carries the only unchanging deposit of faith. We already reach over 20 million Catholics each month, teach 1.5 million students in 193 countries, and maintain the largest database of saints, prayers, and Catholic teaching in the world. Now we must embed this truth into AI, before the world learns from sources that twist or erase the Gospel.
As NPR observed, Pray.com wants to be “the Marvel Universe of faith” (NPR). But Catholic evangelization cannot stop at the level of spectacle. Our task is to offer depth, sacraments, and salvation, not just engagement. We must ensure that AI-powered Scripture points not only to the imagination but to the Eucharist, Confession, and the living Christ.
This is where CatholicOnline.AI comes in. Our mission is clear: to put the fullness of Catholic teaching—Scripture, Tradition, the lives of the saints—into the very fabric of AI technology.
AI will soon answer every question, counsel every teenager, and tell every story. The question is: will it tell the truth? Will it lead souls toward Heaven or away from it?
The Church must be present, boldly and faithfully, in this space. Not to entertain, but to evangelize. Not to chase views, but to save souls.
Now is the moment to act… before the algorithms decide what the Gospel means for the next generation.
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