A Catholic Church in Belarus blessed an AI-generated image of St. Carlo Acutis, an Italian teen known as the first Millennial saint, effectively granting the image the treatment typically reserved for an authentic icon.
\n\nThe ceremony reportedly occurred in St. Mary Magdalene Church in Novolukoml, Belarus, and was presided over by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz. Clergy unveiled the depiction and blessed it as a permanent part of the church. Belarusian media reported that the image was “consecrated” during the ceremony, a particular designation that sets apart the object of the consecration exclusively for prayer and worship of God.
\n\nMultiple reports describe the blessing of the image as the first of its kind in the history of the Catholic Church — and a particularly controversial move given that Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly discouraged the use of artificial intelligence to draft homilies and engage in other clerical activities. The pope recently warned that humans must distinguish between true art created by humans, which represents the human soul, and AI artifacts.
\n\nThe image created by machines shows the likeness of St. Carlo holding a laptop, representing his work in life in creating a website to document instances of Eucharistic miracles.
\n\nArchbishop Kondrusiewicz, who…
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