Primary sources
Key Documents
Selected Catholic documents and addresses that are especially helpful for understanding the Church's emerging reflection on artificial intelligence.
- Address of Pope Leo XIV in the Presentation and Promulgation of the Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas (25 May 2026)
- Magnifica Humanitas: Encyclical Letter on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence (15 May 2026)
- Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the 60th World Day of Social Communications (24 January 2026)
- Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (14 January 2025)
- Address of Pope Francis to Participants in the International Conference of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation (22 June 2024)
- Address of His Holiness Pope Francis at the G7 Session on Artificial Intelligence (14 June 2024)
- Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Social Communications (24 January 2024)
- Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 57th World Day of Peace (1 January 2024)
- Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in the Minerva Dialogues (27 March 2023)
- Address Prepared by Pope Francis for the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life (28 February 2020)