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
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
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