June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a time to remember Jesus' faithful and unconditional love for all humanity. This devotion springs from contemplating His pierced Heart, a symbol of a love that never tires of forgiving and healing each and everyone of us.
Jesus asked St. Margaret Mary Alacoque that devotion to His Sacred Heart be spread in order to make reparation for indifference and to respond with love to His self-giving on the Cross and in the Eucharist. During this month, the Church invites us to draw closer to Him through concrete acts of charity, prayer, and complete trust in His mercy.
A #BookReview of Wise Home by @frailey_k the first in a new series. https://t.co/2pEzOQpo8z It is an interesting beginning to a story. It feels like a coming of age story. It is an intergenerational family story. And it is a magical story with talking animals. From early on we know that Great Aunt Wilda knows more than she lets on. But she allows the adventure to unfold. It is a story about friendship and learning a friends history and story even if that friend is feline, also learning about the community in the fields and woods nearby, and it is about finding your place in the world. Even if you are putting the pieces together slowly. #CatholicFiction #ChristianLiterature
Congress approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states to ratify on this day in 1919. Whenever a new state voted in favor, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) sewed a star on this giant flag. 🧵
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
After visiting all 94 basilicas in the U.S., Grady Connolly created Basilicas: A Pilgrim’s Guide to America’s Most Remarkable Catholic Churches—a beautiful new guide filled with sacred architecture and Catholic history. Learn more and preorder today: https://t.co/Tm9aagbCLD
In order to protect the human person in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence, we must once again reflect on the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, solidarity and social justice. #MagnificaHumanitas
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I just sent out the most recent edition of my #Creativity newsletter, with shoutouts to @stephlandsem and @TonyKolenc Read it online here https://t.co/KmYHCZ0uQR
In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Soldiers of many wars lie in the tranquility of Springfield Cemetery. The first Civil War soldier buried here was Col. Everett Peabody who fell at Shiloh in 1862. An entire section of the burial ground is dedicated to those who defended freedom in the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Holy Spirit opens the door of our heart, helping us to overcome resistance, selfishness, mistrust and prejudice, while enabling us to live as children of God and brothers and sisters to one another.
The Spirit opens the doors of the Church so that it can be welcoming and hospitable to all, even to those who have closed their doors on God and neighbour, on hope and the joy of living.
In his message for the World Day of Communications, May 17, Pope Leo XIV warned that AI must not replace human creativity, responsibility or critical thinking, saying the challenge “is not technological, but anthropological.” READ: https://t.co/dfGOTd42BC
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of #mathematician and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Unfortunately, misinformation continues to be spread about her. See my last blog post for another example. #MariaGaetanaAgnesi
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Pope Leo XIV has approved the creation of a new commission on AI to coordinate the Vatican's response to the rapidly expanding technology and its implications for human dignity, integral development, and the Church’s own internal use of AI.
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Our Merriam-Webster dictionary was the first to use uniform American spellings of the English language. The Merriam brothers, booksellers at Main and State, bought the rights to Webster’s lexicon in 1845. They developed it into the best-selling English dictionary in the world.
HUGE thanks to @stephlandsem featuring my novel Playing by Heart as a Summer Reading Recommendation in her latest newsletter. you're a historical fiction fan, you definitely want to subscribe for a chance to win won of her book giveaways! https://t.co/aNLr9Rtvi2
The 1893 Coca-Cola trademark registration, featuring the logo's distinctive cursive, can be found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's U.S. Patent Office Trademarks Collection.
On this day in 1886, the very first Coca-Cola was sold at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.