Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
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
Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech:
"I'd like to close with a request.
We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction.
We need informed critics who will tell the labs when
we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.
Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot.
Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take.
Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.
Dutch activists are blocking the rail lines to the port of Rotterdam to stop military supplies from being shipped to Israel.
If similar tactics were applied all across the world, Israel’s war machine would grind to a halt in months.
🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders
For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has
On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing
#sapsHQ [ACTIVE CRIME SCENE] #SAPS National Head Office Crime Intelligence has discovered a #DrugLab worth about R100 MIL in the North West Province. Colonel Adele Myburgh and Lt Col Amanda Van Wyk are on their way to the scene. #DrugsOffTheStreets ME
Israel, if everyone is lying, open Gaza.
If the ICC, the UN, international human rights organisations, Israeli rights groups, journalists, doctors, humanitarian workers, aid agencies, witnesses, and survivors are all lying, then open Gaza.
Let independent investigators, forensic experts, journalists, and UN monitors in.
A state confident in the truth does not fear investigation. A state afraid of the truth blocks access.
Open Gaza.
Israel killed more than 25,000 children in 948 days in the Middle East. That means Israel killed ~27 children every day for 948 days with complete impunity!
An emotional final Mass was held in Beit Sahour on Sunday as Father Louis Salman, a beloved figure among Palestinian Christian youth, was forced to leave the country.
Israeli authorities refused to renew the Jordanian-born priest's residency following an intensive security investigation.
Father Louis, known for his spiritual guidance and national presence—most notably leading a funeral prayer for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin—was reportedly targeted due to his influential role among the youth and his vocal stance on the occupation.
His departure is seen by many Palestinians as a broader move to pressure the Palestinian Christian community and its leadership.
Zimbabwe will return 67 farms seized from foreigners from four European countries covered by bilateral investment pacts, the country's agriculture minister said, as it seeks to mend ties with Western countries while it battles for debt relief. https://t.co/2JTapoUTek