Ever since the beginning of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy last May, there has been anticipation concerning his first encyclical letter. Oftentimes the subject and tone of a pope’s opening epistle is a significant marker of a given pontificate. For Pope…
Pope Leo has initiated the conversation Black Catholics have been waiting for
There is a woman I think of when I read Magnifica Humanitas. She has no name in the historical record. She exists only in the diary of Jesuit Fr. Peter Havermans, who wrote about her in November 1838, the month after the…
Seeing Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical Through A Jewish Lens
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical entitled “Magnifica Humanitas” warns readers of the opportune dangers of a technocratic digital sphere.
All Christians should listen to Pope Leo on AI
Sometimes the pope knows how to nail some theses to the door, too.
Pope Leo’s ‘evangelical’ encyclical
I read Pope Leo’s papal encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” Imagine my surprise in finding an “evangelical” Catholic diametrically opposite American MAGA evangelicals. What captured my attention was the first third…
Main Takeaways From Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.
Pope Leo XIV’s major new teaching on safeguarding humanity in the age of artificial intelligence is a forward-looking document, arriving at the precipice of what many see as a new technological age that will profoundly reshape human life.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”