Two weeks before her death on March 30, 1990, US Catholic interviewed Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., who said: I pray for the children, that they may be saved and sheltered and nourished. I pray for the church and all the members of the church that they may be empowered to do the work of the… Read More Flashback: The Prayers of Sister Thea Bowman
Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. writes: What the manosphere is, in other words, is a cacophony of conflicting answers—some encouraging, some infuriating—to the shared question of what it means to be a man today…. As the great philosopher Charles Taylor shows in his essay “Politics of Recognition,” people often felt that those prefabricated social identities distorted… Read More How the Church Should Respond to the Rise of the ‘Manosphere’
In a recent interview with Georgetown, Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, states: “Magnifica Humanitas” delivers on Pope Leo’s commitment to address the challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world; that transformation is already underway. The real… Read More 5 Key Takeaways on ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ and Pope Leo’s Vision for AI
There is a temptation, reading Pope Leo XIV’s letter on artificial intelligence, to hear its two cities — Babel and Jerusalem — as a simple contrast between pride and humility, or between technology baptized and technology refused. But the deeper distinction the Holy Father draws is political, and it is the one I want to… Read More Communion, Not Homogeneity: Democracy and the Common Good in the Age of Babel
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All. by Anna Louie Sussman: “The future has never been assured, but it feels as though we are living in a time of spectacular uncertainty. In the United States, job tenures have contracted and… Read More Around the Web
Anna Rowlands writes: Eleven years ago, Laudato Si’ called us to an urgent care for the earth and the poor, warning of a technocratic paradigm that measures human worth by utility. Today, Pope Leo makes clear that to overcome this paradigm and exercise this care for the earth and the poor requires us to urgently… Read More Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas
Millennial editor Robert Christian on Magnifica Humanitas:
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