Jessie Wardarski

In this image from video provided by Just Like Me in April 2026, the company’s co-founder and investor Jeff Tinsley, bottom right, interacts with an AI-generated Jesus. (Just Like Me via AP)

The faith-based tech boom is here, from ‘BuddhaBot’ to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus

April 10, 2026 at 1:35 p.m.

As religious AI tools become increasingly common, many people are reckoning with how these technologies shape their relationship to faith, authority and spiritual guidance.

Students of St. John Berchmans’ school hold items often linked to Blessed Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized a saint by Pope Leo XIV, before Mass at Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish, on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Carlo Acutis, the saint next door: A teen computer whiz becomes church’s first millennial saint

September 5, 2025 at 6:24 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, will declare Carlo Acutis a saint on Sunday in his first canonization ceremony.

Jean-Michel Gisnel cries out while praying with other congregants at the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Sunday, January 26, 2025, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, turn to faith amid deportation fears

January 26, 2025 at 3:58 p.m.

Some of Springfield’s estimated 15,000 Haitians are seeking solace and divine intervention in their churches or at shops that sell spiritual products. Community leaders say many are overwhelmed by fears...

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