This week’s Vatican headlines sound more like a Netflix satire than church news: a flood of AI deepfakes showing Pope Leo XIV commenting on everything from politics to the end times. The Holy See is scrambling to set the record straight, but how do you fact-check a Pope who never spoke? In this week’s episode, Maggie and Bob dive into the strange new world of papal impostors, digital illusions, and the Vatican’s fight to protect its voice in an age when anyone can clone it.

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