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Kohlton Holsapple
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CEO of Credenzio Studios LLC Founder of Lionhearts and ONE Nonprofit Husband, Game Designer and Philosopher
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The Vatican launched an AI-powered translation system at St. Peter’s Basilica the same day Pope Leo told priests to stop using ChatGPT for sermons.
Read that again. Same week, same institution, opposite directions on AI.
The Vatican is drawing a very specific line: AI can translate the priest’s words, but never generate them.
This tells you everything about how the Catholic Church views the AI adoption curve. They’re treating AI as infrastructure for distribution, never a replacement for creation. Translation scales reach. AI sermons erode trust.
Pope Leo chose his name specifically because Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum during the first industrial revolution. He told the College of Cardinals in May that he sees AI as the next version of that same disruption. He’s a Chicago-born strategist building a framework for which AI use cases the Church will absorb and which ones it will reject.
The muscle atrophy analogy he used is the part worth paying attention to. “Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, they die.” He’s making a cognitive dependency argument that applies far beyond religion. Every knowledge worker outsourcing their thinking to LLMs is running the same experiment on their own brain.
5.6M+ views on Polymarket tells you the secular world finds this fascinating too. The question the Pope is really answering goes beyond sermons. Where does human judgment become non-negotiable? Most organizations haven’t figured that out yet.
The Vatican just did.
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JUST IN: Pope Leo asks priests to stop using artificial intelligence to write sermons.
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Did you know that the Pretzel was invented by monks, partially, because of Lent and to reward students?
As we approach Lent (this Wednesday), look at the shape of a Pretzel. It was invented by monks in the 600s.
They called it Pretiola ("Little Reward"). The monk who invented them gave them to children as rewards for memorizing prayers or the catechism.
The shape represents arms crossed in prayer over the chest (the traditional posture before joined hands became popular).
It is made of only water, flour, and salt, no eggs, no milk, no fat. It was the perfect "fasting food" for Lent.
Every time you eat one, remember, it was made by Catholic monks to serve a holy purpose!


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@trad_west_ Just wait until people realize you will have to memorize and perform the prayers from memory in Lionhearts.
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You will be able to memorize and perform historical prayers from memory in Lionhearts.
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One of the redeeming qualities of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, is that when the player prays at a shrine, cross, or chapel, the prayer must be completed fully for it to count. The game requires you to watch the animation that lasts 1–2 minutes, without skipping or interrupting, to activate buffs, that is, the prayer only counts if you listen to/watch it entirely. Sure they have some stuff in the game that shouldn't be there but this is pretty cool
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One of the redeeming qualities of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, is that when the player prays at a shrine, cross, or chapel, the prayer must be completed fully for it to count.
The game requires you to watch the animation that lasts 1–2 minutes, without skipping or interrupting, to activate buffs, that is, the prayer only counts if you listen to/watch it entirely.
Sure they have some stuff in the game that shouldn't be there but this is pretty cool


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.@SecKennedy: “One of the reasons we wanted to host this meeting, as I make clear, is to announce to the world that the gaslighting of Lyme patients is over.”
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