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Longbeard

Building Catholic AI and accelerating adoption in service of the Church. It has since evolved into a leader in AI-driven solutions for the Church.

A technology company building Catholic AI and accelerating adoption in service of the Church. Founded in 2015 as a technology and design agency, Longbeard has worked with Catholic institutions worldwide, including the Holy See. Through technology, it aims to support the Church’s mission by providing reliable answers, preserving historical texts, and making faith-based content more accessible. Its key products include Magisterium AI, a Catholic answer engine designed for accuracy and transparency; Vulgate, an AI-powered library platform enhancing academic research; and Christendom, a hub for discovering and engaging with Catholic content.

10/31/2026

Isaac Hecker left Brook Farm for the Catholic Church and spent the rest of his life trying to bring America to Christ, with the printing press among his tools. The Jesuit martyrs St Jean de Brébeuf and St Isaac Jogues kept going back to the people who would kill them.

At Saint Clement Chicago Parish's Men's Executive Series in Chicago, our CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders asked what their example demands of us in the age of AI. We have presses now beyond anything Hecker imagined, and each of us carries one. What the Church is short of, as she was in his day, is men on fire.

Video and full speech in the comments.

10/29/2026

Magisterium AI's new Library keeps your reading in one place. Search the Doctors, Fathers, Saints and Popes by title or author, save books for later, listen to them in the voice you like best, and build collections around the authors, topics or projects you are working on. Wherever you stop, the Library picks up right there next time. Link in the comments to try it out!

10/29/2026

Check the references. That was Fr. Philip Larrey's advice to cloistered nuns on using AI, in an interview with Vatican News.

Fr. Larrey, a member of our Scholarly Advisory Board, was speaking at a course in Rome on women's monasteries and artificial intelligence. Asked about reliability, he pointed to Magisterium AI as "a specifically Catholic AI app" that "consistently provides references for the answers it offers." His counsel is to look at those references and verify that they are valid, real and reliable.

Our thanks to Vatican News and to Deborah Castellano Lubov for the story.

Link to the full story in the comments.

10/29/2026

Our CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders was asked to address diocesan finance officers from across the United States on the age of AI and robotics.

Thank you to the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference, the professional association for diocesan chief financial officers, for inviting him to speak at its 2026 conference in Louisville. His talk, "A Century in a Decade: Diocesan Finance and the Age of AI and Robotics", asks what this moment means for the people who keep the Church's books: where the technology is heading, the risks already on their desks, and what a diocese can do this year.

Link to the full talk in the comments.

10/28/2026

Catechists are going to matter more in the next twenty years, not less.

That was the argument our CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders made in his keynote at the RC Archdiocese of Southwark's Diocesan Day for Catechists. Speaking as someone who builds these systems, he explained why a machine can describe the faith with great accuracy but can't hand it on.

As he put it: "The aim isn't to need fewer catechists because the machines have become good. It's to form more catechists, so that people come to need the machines less."

Link to the full talk in the comments.

10/22/2026

Only about one in five Americans feels hopeful about AI.

Fear moved into the space where a clear explanation should have been. That’s the starting point for this week’s Catholic Futurist Podcast, where Louis Kim, formerly a vice president at HP, puts the question to Matthew Harvey Sanders of Longbeard, Taylor Black of Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, and Vincent Higgins of the Builders AI Forum.

Episode link in the comments.

10/22/2026

A homily is supposed to be the least probable thing said in a church all week.

That’s Matthew Harvey Sanders at the Archdiocese of Southwark’s Day of Formation for Clergy, on why Pope Leo XIV is right to ask priests not to write homilies with AI. A language model is built to produce what’s likely, so what comes back will be “fluent, orthodox if you’re lucky, and original in everything except what it has to say.”

What it can’t know is who buried their mother and baptised their son. As he put it: “A machine writes the most probable homily. A priest is meant to preach the one that could only have been preached here.”

Link to the full talk in the comments.

10/20/2026

A job is work someone will pay you for. Work is far larger: raising a child, nursing a dying parent, keeping a parish going.

Opening the Archdiocese of Southwark’s Day of Formation for Clergy, our CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders argued the economy may soon need much less of our labour without there being less for people to do. What’s left will increasingly be the kind nobody pays for, which is the kind a parish has always run on.

Link to the full talk in the comments.

10/15/2026

Every diocese and every country, ranked by the statistics the Church itself reports. The Catholic Leaderboard shows baptisms, ordinations, seminarians, deacons, religious and more, how each has changed year over year, and which dioceses publish their financial reports.

Those reports are in Magisterium AI too, so you can ask questions about them: an overview of one diocese, or a comparison between two. Built in the spirit of transparency, as an invitation to learn and engage.

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