“The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that ‘sincerely held religious belief’ under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse,” wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.



Oh yes please yes please, every Catholic engineer go for it.
They are completely authorized to ask for this as a religious accommodation, and Catholics in particular have gotten all kinds of shit this way in the past.