Essays
One essay a week on AI and parish operations, across four columns: The Parish Office, New Things, The Teardown, and Field Notes.
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We tested three AI tools on bulletin announcements. One was safe.
Same messy stack of announcement requests, three different tools. What worked, what hallucinated a Mass time, and what we’d let near a real bulletin.
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What Magnifica Humanitas actually asks of a parish secretary
The encyclical isn’t a document for theologians to admire. It’s a working standard for the person who answers the parish phone.
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The parish office is drowning. AI is not a lifeguard — it’s a better filing system.
The problem in most parish offices isn’t effort. It’s that everything lives in fourteen places, and one person’s memory is the search engine.
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