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All Saints' Day: Digital Pretenses

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La Croix
Published
Oct 29, 2026
Language
French
Author
Thiébault Dromard
On topic
75%
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The text is already in English, so per the instructions it is returned unchanged: An opinion piece warns that AI "ghost" avatars recreating the voice and image of the deceased, now being shown on large screens in French funeral homes, are a commercially driven illusion that hinders grief. It contrasts this with Christian anthropology, which keeps the bond with the dead through the communion of saints and hope of resurrection, and cites Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica humanitas warning against reducing the mystery of the person to data.

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