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This is a screenshot of an AI-generated deepfake video of a mock bishop confronting ICE agents. Social media platforms are flooded with counterfeit cinematic social media impersonating Catholic Church leaders, from phony prelates to Pope Leo XIV himself, and comments accompanying the images show many viewers are being fooled. (OSV News screenshot/Instagram)

Deepfake popes and bishops abound: Here's how Church can push back 'AI attack' on truth

Kimberley Heatherington|Apr 8, 2026|6 Min Read

Ukrainian Catholic Redemptorist Fathers Ivan Levitsky and Bohdan Geleta are seen in this undated photo posted to the website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church June 28, 2024. According to the UGCC, the images was taken while both priests were held in a Russian prison. The priests, captured by Russian forces from Berdyansk, Ukraine, in November 2022, were announced as freed by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy June 28. (OSV News/Screen shot from UGCC website)

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Ukrainian Catholic priests freed from Russian captivity

Gina Christian|Jun 28, 2024|7 Min Read

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Growing case of kidnappings of Christians in Nigeria: ‘Where is the outrage?’

Ngala Killian Chimtom|Jun 20, 2024|4 Min Read

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Vatican conference aims to empower laity without ‘clericalizing’ them

Elise Ann Allen|Feb 15, 2023|7 Min Read

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua sentences seven more clergy and laity to 10 years in prison

Catholic News Agency|Feb 7, 2023|2 Min Read

Priests are seen during a special Mass for vocations in Merrick, N.Y., Aug. 4, 2022. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

The bishops’ clergy problem

Msgr. Richard Antall|Nov 13, 2022|5 Min Read

Father Manuel Acosta, professor of theology at El Salvador's Jose Simeón Cañas Central American University, speaks with seminarians Dec. 14, 2020 in San Ignacio, El Salvador. Father Acosta, as a theologian, was a teacher and later a colleague to three priests who were assassinated in El Salvador within the last three years. He wants civil and church authorities do more to investigate the crimes. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

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In clergy killings in El Salvador, a priest who knew them asks for justice

Rhina Guidos|Jan 13, 2021|4 Min Read

Clergymen and pilgrims pray outside Transfiguration Catholic Church on Holy Saturday, April 15, 2017, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Russia's Catholic Church leaders are warning against proposed curbs on the clergy. (CNS photo/Ilya Naymushin, Reuters)

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Russia's Catholic Church warns against proposed curbs on clergy

Jonathan Luxmoore|Oct 1, 2020|3 Min Read

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar of Rome, reads Pope Francis' speech during a meeting with priests at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome Feb. 27, 2020. Pope Francis was unable to attend the traditional Lenten penitential service due to a mild cold. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

In prepared speech, pope warns clergy on pitfalls of bitterness

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 27, 2020|4 Min Read

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