Yes — for Mass times, confession schedules, and sacrament-prep first steps. AskMyChurch answers from your parish's own site and never speaks for a priest.
Yes — an AI assistant fits a Catholic parish, on one condition: it handles logistics and first steps, and it never answers in place of a priest. AskMyChurch is built with that line drawn in code, not in a promise: it answers Mass times, confession schedules, and sacrament-prep questions from your parish's own website and homilies, and it hands anything pastoral to a real person at the parish.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
What time is the Saturday vigil? Is there confession before the 8am? Which Mass is in Spanish? What's the Holy Day schedule this week? Is the parish office open on Friday? These are the calls and emails that fill a parish secretary's day — and plenty of them arrive after the office closes, because the people asking are at work during office hours.
An assistant on your parish website answers those questions at 9pm on a Saturday, using exactly what your parish has already published. If your site says confession is Saturdays 3:30–4:30, that's the answer a visitor gets. If your site doesn't say, the assistant says it doesn't know and offers to connect the person with the office. It never fills a gap with a guess — a wrong confession time isn't a small error when someone drove across town for it.
A couple wants to get married at your parish. A family wants their newborn baptized. A parent asks when First Communion prep starts. An adult wants to become Catholic and has never heard the letters OCIA.
None of that preparation belongs to an AI — it belongs to your priest, your deacon, your catechists. What the assistant handles is the step before: if your site says baptism prep meets the first Tuesday of the month, that's what a new family hears at midnight when the baby won't sleep and they finally have a minute to look it up. If your site says engaged couples should contact the office six months ahead, that's the answer they get — with a link to the page and the office contact. The assistant gets people to the right human with the right first step already taken.
No absolution. No spiritual direction. No rulings on whether someone can receive Communion. When a question is pastoral — "I've been away from the Church for twenty years, can I come back?" — the assistant does two things: it shares what your parish itself has published, if anything, and it connects the person with a real human being. That handoff isn't a fallback for when the AI gets confused; it's the design. AskMyChurch is the front door of your church, always open — and a front door's job is to welcome people in, not to counsel them on the porch.
One more piece of that line is hard-coded: if someone writes about harming themselves, crisis routing responds before any AI is involved — 988 and the Crisis Text Line, in English and Spanish. That path is fixed code and runs the same way every time.
Many parishes serve an English-speaking and a Spanish-speaking community from the same campus, often with different Mass times, different prep classes, different contacts. AskMyChurch answers in the language the visitor writes in, English or Spanish, from the same parish sources — so the family asking "¿a qué hora es la Misa en español?" gets the same accuracy as everyone else.
The assistant knows two things: your parish's website and your parish's homilies. Nothing from the open internet, no generic answers about Catholicism, no borrowed content from some other parish. And when someone asks what Father actually said — about forgiveness, about the Eucharist, about last Sunday's Gospel — the assistant links the homily recording at the exact minute he said it, so people hear his words in his voice instead of an AI's paraphrase.
Three plans, priced by weekend attendance: $99 a month for parishes under 500, $249 for 500–2,000, and $500 for 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and cancels anytime.
Working previews are already built in several metros — 84 in Atlanta, 79 in Nashville, 63 in Charlotte, 60 in Columbia SC, 53 in Charleston, 38 in Knoxville — each one drawn from a church's public site, waiting for that church to claim it. The honest way to decide if this fits your parish is to ask it the questions your office answered this week and see what comes back, at askmy.church.
Yes. AskMyChurch answers Mass, confession, and Holy Day schedule questions from what the parish has published on its own website, and when the site doesn't say, it says it doesn't know and connects the person with the parish office instead of guessing.
No. It shares only what the parish itself has published — including homilies, linked to the exact minute the priest said the words — and hands pastoral conversations to a real person at the parish.
Yes. It answers in English or Spanish, whichever language the visitor writes in, from the same parish sources. Crisis routing — 988 and the Crisis Text Line — is hard-coded in both languages and responds before any AI does.
Plans are priced by weekend attendance: $99 a month under 500, $249 for 500–2,000, and $500 for 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan includes a 30-day free trial, a money-back guarantee, and cancel-anytime terms.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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