The Master Catechism site is now up and running. See the full announcement from Tradivox here. It truly is an amazing resource.
One asks a question, and receives a clear, concise AI answer along with citations—taken exclusively from the official catechisms of the last millennium. Apparently they have over 35 texts loaded into the tool already, with more coming.
We hope this gets the exposure and the use it deserves, but at WOR we are ready to bet money that commentators will miss one of its most significant aspects:
It marks the start of a Catholic robot war.
With authentic Catholic doctrine having become the plaything of the social media magisterium and talking heads of every stripe—and with secular search engines now curating reality for users based on volume, reception, and other occult algorhythms hidden from the common man— “what the Church teaches” will henceforth be subject to Identities crafted by The Machine.
Can you see it?
The new digital mediation of information, subject to the whims of those High Atop the Thing, will mold and shape an illusory “Catholic identity” based on… well, whatever the powers that be want to base it on.
If TwitterPope says “death penalty=inherently evil” to millions (like he did again yesterday), the “Catholic Robot” of generic AI engines in cyberspace will say the same… and so what if all Scripture and Tradition gainsays them? It will sure look for all the world like “the Church teaches this, now.” Who among the soundbyte masses will be equipped (or care enough) to tell the difference?
Thanks be to God, at least there is now another option out there—another robot in the ring, as it were.
Because the Master Catechism pulls answers from solid texts of the ordinary and universal magisterium (source citations can be read directly in the app), the faithful will at least have our own instant, reliable answers—the “voice of Tradition,” as the man once said—to compare and contrast with whatever pseudomagisterial mishmash happens to be passing itself off as “Catholic” on any given day.
“Is the death penalty really inadmissible?”
“Are all religions really paths to heaven?”
“Should the civilly divorced and remarried really receive Communion?”
Maybe our next installment could feature a lineup of Master Catechism answers, opposite quotations from the last sixty years. Or even the last five years.
Way to go, Tradivox!
…and Bravo the Restoration!
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