1. The Prophetic Role of the Church in AI Ethics 

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• Audience: Keynotes, plenary sessions, bishops, and diocesan leaders

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• Description: This presentation examines how the Catholic Church offers a distinctive prophetic voice in the global conversation on artificial intelligence. Drawing on the Church’s spiritual tradition, embodied and sacramental life, intercultural wisdom, and global presence, it argues that the Church’s contribution to AI goes beyond technical ethics or policy frameworks. By asking not only what AI can do but who we are becoming through the technologies we create, the session explores how the Church can serve as a moral and spiritual compass in an algorithmic age—shaping discernment, grounding technological development in meaning and purpose, and convening global and interreligious partnerships capable of addressing AI’s human and spiritual consequences. Originally presented during the first Builders AI Forum, Vatican City (2024). 

 

2. Faith Meets AI: Embracing the New Frontier in Catholic Ministry

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• Audience: Pastors, parish leaders, diocesan ministers, and pastoral teams

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• Description: This presentation offers a clear and accessible introduction to artificial intelligence for Church leaders and ministers. It begins by situating AI within its historical development and clarifying key terms and concepts that often shape contemporary conversations. From this foundation, the session turns to pastoral and theological discernment, exploring how AI is already influencing communication, formation, leadership, and community within parish and diocesan life. Framed by Catholic faith and ministry, the presentation invites participants to engage AI neither with fear nor uncritical enthusiasm, but with attentiveness to the human, relational, and spiritual dimensions of ministry in a digitally mediated age. Originally presented during the first Builders AI Forum, Vatican City, in 2024. 

 

3. AI and Liturgy: Eight Exploratory Trajectories

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• Audience: Liturgical ministers, music directors, worship leaders, liturgy committees, and diocesan liturgy offices

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• Description: This session offers a theological, aesthetic, and pastoral exploration of how artificial intelligence is already intersecting with Christian worship and where it may be leading liturgical practice. Drawing on eight exploratory trajectories, the presentation moves from AI’s current use in generating texts, art, and music for worship to broader questions concerning culture, ecology, embodiment, and sacramentality. Rather than proposing prescriptions or predictions, the session invites liturgical theologians, ministers, and pastoral leaders to engage AI critically and creatively, discerning how emerging technologies might reshape participation, presence, creativity, and meaning in worship. Framed by the Church’s liturgical tradition and attentiveness to human embodiment and communal ritual, the session explores how AI may function not simply as a tool, but as a theological frontier—one that challenges worshiping communities to hold ancient practices and emerging technologies in thoughtful, faithful tension. Originally presented at the North American Academy of Liturgy, January 2025. 

 

4. Preaching in a Time of Generative AI

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• Audience: Preachers (priests, deacons, seminarians), homiletics faculty, and preaching formation programs

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• Description: This session explores how preachers can engage artificial intelligence thoughtfully and faithfully in the preparation and proclamation of the Word. Situating AI within the long history of preaching and evolving forms of communication, the presentation focuses on how generative AI can support—without replacing—the spiritual, pastoral, and formational work of the preacher. Drawing on concrete examples, it examines how AI may assist with study, contextual awareness, clarity of expression, and pastoral communication, while emphasizing the necessity of prayer, discernment, and personal encounter. Framed by a theology of preaching rooted in the liturgy and the life of the assembly, the session invites preachers to form habits of prudence and responsibility, ensuring that technology serves the proclamation of the Gospel rather than eclipsing the human voice through which the Spirit speaks. Originally presented at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, in 2023.

 

5. AI for Pastors: Promise, Prudence, and Pastoral Practice

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• Audience: Pastors, parish administrators, parish staff leaders, and diocesan clergy offices

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• Description: This session is designed specifically for pastors and parish leaders discerning how artificial intelligence is already shaping pastoral ministry and parish life. Beginning with a clear and accessible primer on what AI is—and what it is not—the presentation situates current developments within the Church’s long history of engaging new technologies for the sake of the Gospel. From there, the session offers practical, pastorally grounded frameworks for using AI in preaching, communication, administration, and leadership, while maintaining the centrality of human presence, spiritual formation, and pastoral discernment. Emphasizing prudence, ethical responsibility, and clear boundaries around confidentiality and trust, the session invites pastors to engage AI not as a replacement for ministry, but as a tool that can free time and energy for what only pastors can do: accompany God’s people with compassion, wisdom, and hope. Originally presented to the annual Pastors’ Week of the Archdiocese of New York in 2025.

 

6. Faithful Presence: Formation for Priestly Life in the Age of AI

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• Audience: Seminarians, formators, seminary faculty, and vocation directors

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• Description: This session is designed for those in priestly formation who are learning to inhabit ministry in a Church increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Beginning with a clear primer on what AI is and how it has developed, the presentation pays particular attention to the growing use of AI in writing, research, and theological education. It addresses concrete questions seminarians are already facing: how AI shapes habits of study, authorship, reflection, and intellectual integrity, and where its use can either support or undermine formation. Grounded in Catholic spiritual and theological tradition, the session is organized around three formative pillars—pastoral presence, spiritual formation, and discernment—inviting seminarians to reflect not only on how AI can assist learning and communication, but also on when its use may short-circuit the slow, prayerful work essential to priestly formation. By integrating practical examples from preaching preparation and academic work with ethical reflection, the session helps seminarians develop mature judgment around educational AI, ensuring that technology serves formation rather than replacing the human, intellectual, and spiritual labor through which vocation is shaped. Originally presented at St. Joseph’s Seminary & College (Archdiocese of New York), Yonkers, NY.

 

7. AI and the Future of Catholic Faith Formation and Education

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• Audience: Catechists, Catholic school educators, DREs, youth ministers, and diocesan faith formation offices

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• Description: As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how people learn, communicate, and form meaning, Catholic faith formation is called to respond with both creativity and discernment. This session invites catechists, educators, and ministry leaders to examine how AI is already influencing religious education—from lesson planning and curriculum design to habits of attention, reflection, and spiritual formation. Rather than focusing on efficiency alone, the presentation explores how AI can support learning while safeguarding the relational, communal, and formative dimensions at the heart of catechesis. Grounded in Catholic theology and a vision of formation that integrates intellect, faith, and lived practice, the session encourages educators to engage AI as a pedagogical tool—never a substitute—for forming conscience, cultivating imagination, and nurturing communities of faith. Originally presented at the 2026 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.