So, fear no one. Take whatever has surrounded you this week, whatever has whispered “terror on every side,” and look at it the way Jeremiah finally did—as something real, but smaller than the God who is standing beside you. And then do what the prophet did. Turn your complaint into a song.

The recent remarks of Pope Leo XIV urging priests “to resist the temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence” merit careful and extended analysis. His concerns touch on the nature of preaching, the exercise of the intellect, the authenticity of pastoral communication, and the place of technological mediation in ecclesial life. Because the Pope is correct on several foundational points, it is all the more important to examine where his conclusions do not follow and where his diagnosis of artificial intelligence rests on conceptual misunderstandings.