Ahead of Monday's installation of @BishopMiehm, Sister Loretta Manzara reflects on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul and the deeper meaning it brings to this historic celebration for the Diocese of London. https://t.co/EjJ4qZIXtM
June 7 – Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
This Solemnity celebrates the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Lord Jesus Christ, may this sacred food reshape how we live. Deepen our faith and let our lives become a prayer of gratitude. Amen.
This is the view of 1.2 million people from above. This is happening in Madrid, in the famous Plaza de Cibeles and its surroundings, where Pope Leo XIV will preside over the solemn Corpus Christi Mass, followed by a historic procession.
The @cathedralstpet is celebrating its 200th Anniversary! The Mass will take place at the Cathedral on Sun, June 7, at 10:30 am. Most Rev Ivan Jurkovič, Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, and Most Rev Michael Mulhall, Archbishop of Kingston, will be the celebrants.
All are welcome!
Esto no se ve todos los días en Madrid.
Decenas de hermanas de la congregación Iesu Communio llenaron de alegría y cantos las calles mientras salían al encuentro del Papa León XIV, emocionando a todos los transeúntes.
Esta joven comunidad, dedicada a la vida contemplativa, la adoración eucarística y la evangelización, fue fundada en 2010 y cuenta con un número creciente de vocaciones en España.
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Tonight’s prayer vigil with Pope Leo XIV turned Madrid into a giant chapel under the open sky: 600,000 young people, absolute silence, and Jesus in the Eucharist at the center. Only Jesus can draw 600,000 people to their knees in silence with the Pope in Spain.
Pope Leo XIV making a triumphal entrance to the Royal Palace of Madrid, for his courtesy visit to Their Most Catholic Majesties The King and Queen of Spain.
Pope Leo on June 8, during his trip to Spain, will hand a golden rose to Our Lady of Almudena, patroness of Madrid.
In 712, when Muslims invaded, the people of Madrid sealed Our Lady in the wall to protect it.
In the 11th century, when Madrid was reconquered by King Alfonso VI of Castile, Christian soldiers wanted to find the statue, but they did not know where it was sealed.
After days of prayer, the spot on the wall hiding the icon crumbled, revealing the statue.
Same statue will process through Bernabeu soccer stadium during the Monday meeting with the diocesan community of Madrid.
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After the presentation of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Professor Léocadie Lushombo of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in California drew attention to victims of AI development, stressing the need to "adopt the perspective of victims" as the Pope wrote.
Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.
What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.
"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."
"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."
These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.
And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.
Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."
The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
Pope Leo has issued a stark warning about AI in his first encyclical. Cardinal Czerny tells me "Pope Leo the 13th issued his call for the protection of human dignity without real dialog with those who were imperiling that dignity. This time Pope Leo (the 14th) is issuing the warnings in dialog with those who are responsible for AI... this is an extraordinary step forward."
Thomas Massie is an absolute legend. He's the only man on Capitol Hill with the integrity and moral fortitude stand up and name the Epstein paedophiles and demand that justice is done.
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