AskMyChurch puts an AI assistant on your parish website, surfacing mass times, sacrament info, RCIA, and bulletins from your own published content. Bilingual, cited, crisis-safe.
A Catholic parish website already carries a heavy load: mass times, confession schedules, sacrament prep, RCIA inquiry nights, bulletin PDFs, ministry sign-ups, school links. People visit at 11 p.m. with a simple question — "when is Saturday vigil?" — and leave if they can't find it fast.
AskMyChurch puts an assistant on that site. It reads your parish's own published pages, bulletin PDFs, and any linked content your team points it to. When someone asks a question, it answers from what your parish actually published — and it shows the source.
It is not a Catholic doctrine engine. It does not carry a built-in catechism or a generic summary of the faith. That would miss the point entirely. Every parish has its own mass schedule, its own RCIA coordinator, its own way of describing first Communion prep. The assistant reflects *your* parish — not a textbook version of one.
When a visitor asks about baptism, the assistant returns what your parish's website says about baptism: who to call, what the prep class looks like, a link to the relevant page. Same for RCIA, marriage prep, confession hours, or the school enrollment process. If the answer is not in your published content, it says so and routes the person to a staff member. It does not guess.
Every answer includes the source — the page or document it came from — so the person can read further and your team can trust the reply.
Spanish-speaking parishioners get answers in Spanish. The assistant detects the language of the question and replies in kind. No separate setup. No separate version of the assistant.
Before any AI processes a message, a hard-coded check looks for signs of acute distress — in English or Spanish. If it finds them, the message routes to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and your parish care team. The assistant never attempts a pastoral or clinical response in a crisis. That check cannot be turned off.
There is no IT project. No integration with your CMS. Your site gets a link or a QR code. Point the assistant at your homily library, your bulletin folder, your website — it builds the index. It works with WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, and Google Tag Manager.
Plans are based on weekend attendance, not features. Every plan includes the full assistant, bilingual answers, crisis safety, cited sources, and the Canon layer that can surface the pastor's homilies and link to the exact moment in a recording.
Founding parishes receive free setup and a price lock for 12 months. Billed monthly.
Questions are anonymous by default. No names, no accounts. A parishioner is identified only when they choose to share their information — for a prayer request, a visit plan, or a ministry sign-up — and that goes directly to your team. Vision Genesis does not train models on your community's conversations.
AskMyChurch is built by Vision Genesis, based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The same engine powers assistants for schools and businesses under the Ask My family.
It answers only from your parish's own published content -- your website, bulletins, and any documents you point it to. It does not carry a built-in catechism or speak for Catholic teaching in general. If a question goes beyond what your parish has published, it says so and offers to connect the person with a staff member.
Yes -- that is exactly where it starts. If your parish website or bulletin lists those times, the assistant reads them, returns them with a source link, and updates as your published content changes.
A hard-coded safety check runs before any AI. Messages signaling acute distress -- in English or Spanish -- are routed to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and your parish care team. The AI does not attempt a pastoral or clinical response in a crisis.
Yes. The assistant detects the language of the question and replies in the same language. No separate setup is required.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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