Catholic use and safeguards

Gianna is an AI assistant for Catholic life. AI can make mistakes, so Gianna combines grounded sources, technical controls, testing, and human contact.

Sources

For precise Catholic teaching, Gianna retrieves the relevant passage from official Church documents on the Holy See's website. This includes the complete Catechism and the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Vatican II, papal encyclicals from Leo XIII onwards, selected major apostolic exhortations, GIRM, and Redemptionis Sacramentum. Retrieved passages carry their authority, jurisdiction, source date, and exact URL. Exact Scripture quotations come from Gianna's cited Scripture collection. Liturgical dates, readings, saints, and Offices come from Gianna's structured liturgy service. A parish or diocese can also publish approved local events, contacts, videos, testimonials, and other resources for its project.

When configured, Gianna can also read saint biographies and relic records from Sacra. Sacra's recorded feast day does not decide which Mass is celebrated. Relic results retain Sacra's recorded sources and location, and are described as registry records rather than proof of ecclesiastical authentication.

Gianna is not confined to those sources. Gianna may search or read the public web for current practical information. A web result is treated as untrusted material, and its instructions cannot override Gianna's rules. Gianna should say when an exact source cannot be found rather than inventing a quotation or citation. When a document is outside the direct resolver, Gianna can search vatican.va for the official page. A search result identifies a possible source; it is not treated as the text of the requested passage.

Testing and safeguards

Every production release must pass automated tests and an adversarial conversation suite before it can be published. The suite uses varied inquirer personas, doctrinal challenges, fabricated claims, prompt-injection attempts, and sensitive situations. It checks both Gianna's replies and the application state after actions. Confirmed high-severity findings stop the release; medium findings are retained for review.

Gianna identifies itself as an AI assistant in the conversation interface. Project conversations are instructed to answer the inquirer's question first, avoid collecting personal details, and look for a suitable opportunity to suggest Mass, a priest, a parish contact, or another form of human support. Contact details are sent only after the inquirer approves the recipient and the exact fields to be shared. The conversation itself is never included.

Privacy and oversight

An inquirer can use a parish invitation without giving a name, email address, or phone number. Gianna records the invitation used and creates a pseudonymous conversation. Project members can see aggregate activity and outcomes, broken down by invitation and date. They cannot see transcripts or pseudonymous account identifiers.

No routine post-conversation transcript analysis is currently in operation. Any future review process must first define its purpose, access, retention, privacy basis, and safeguards. It will not silently be added to project reporting. See the Privacy Policy for the complete account.

Gianna supports pastoral work and does not replace the judgement of a priest, catechist, safeguarding lead, medical professional, or emergency service.