This project critically investigates contemporary Vatican interventions on artificial intelligence. Drawing on recent Vatican documents—including the Rome Call for AI Ethics, Antiqua et Nova, and statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life—the project situates Catholic ethical interventions within the longer historical role of the Church as a global institution engaged in the transmission and reproduction of moral knowledge. Specifically, the project questions whether AI systems can be ethically rehabilitated as Vatican AI ethics claim, given that algorithmic systems are already structured by platform logics, surveillance regimes, and racialized and colonial power relations. Approaching AI as a media environment rather than a neutral tool, the project asks how Vatican appeals to human dignity, responsibility, and the common good are transformed when articulated within a digital ecology characterized by speed, abstraction, surveillance, and data-driven governance. Particular attention will be paid to the uneven global impacts of AI technologies, especially for marginalized and racialized communities. Methodologically, the project combines close textual analysis of ecclesial documents with contemporary critical scholarship on digital governance and AI ethics. By foregrounding mediation rather than content alone, the research advances a critical account of AI ethics that highlights the limits of Vatican moral frameworks in algorithmic environments. The project contributes to interdisciplinary debates on technology, religion, and public ethics, and offers a critical rethinking of how moral authority is negotiated in an era of digital mediation and global inequality.