Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One church’s experiment of using AI in its confessional booth is facing mixed feedback. “It was really an experiment,” chapel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic ...

A Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional booth. It won't do much for your eternal soul. Reading time 5 minutes This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a ...

A Catholic church in Lucerne, Switzerland, has sparked conversation online by installing an artificial intelligence hologram of Jesus in one of its confessionals. The project, “Deus in Machina (God in ...

Countless Catholics on social media have shared experiences of harm by priests in the confessional booth — verbal and spiritual abuse, sexism, inappropriate conduct and out-of-touch priestly counsel.

A church in Switzerland experimented with artificial intelligence to create a digital version of Jesus, leading to a debate on if the move brought people closer to God or if it was just "blasphemous." ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in the ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen, "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...