United Kingdom, March 2 -- Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholic priests not to use AI to write sermons.

The pontiff urged his fellow clergymen to "use your brains more" during a closed-door meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome last month.

The details of the meeting, in which the Pope took questions from priests, were unsealed the following day and reported by Vatican News.

During the meeting, the head of the Catholic Church told listeners that giving a "homily is to share faith" and argued that AI "will never be able to share faith".

Pope Leo warned: "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die.

"The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as no...