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:
Here are 50 quotes from Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica humanitas: “Babel thus reveals the limits of any effort that, however grandiose, arises from self-affirmation, sacrifices human dignity for efficiency, and aspires to reach heaven without God’s blessing.” (7) “Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it… Read More 50 Quotes from Magnifica Humanitas
Last month, 22 bishops, leaders from many of the religious institutions and Catholic organizations across the US, and prominent theologians, including Millennial editors, writers, and contributors, expressed their support for Pope Leo and commitment to standing up for the common good with the Holy Father: Dear Pope Leo and Archbishop Coakley, We, the undersigned Catholic… Read More Hundreds of Catholic Leaders Express Support for Pope After Criticism from Trump
Pope Leo XIV via the Vatican: Indeed, at a time when many in the world seem to be losing their spiritual and ethical points of reference, finding themselves imprisoned in individualism, superficiality and hypocrisy, the university stands out as a privileged place of friendship, cooperation and, at the same time, of interiority and reflection…. The… Read More Pope Leo on the Mission of Catholic Universities
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