@DouthatNYT The refreshing take would be:
“Though some existing guidance applies, we have yet to gather enough information about AI and its potential effects. A hasty verdict being irresponsible, the Church will dedicate herself to learning, listening, and assisting leaders with morality”
@HeyHeyItsConrad Sir! My coworker just got married and is the biggest wrestling fan I know. Do you happen to have anything interesting I could buy for him? The stuff you’re auctioning is amazing. I just don’t have that kind of money to spend. Appreciate your time!
Despite all the sizzling hot takes on the Pope’s press statements about the President and the President’s post about the Pope, I don’t think any have summed up the situation better than Pope Gelasius did in his letter to Emperor Anastasius in AD 494:
“Your Piety’s servants, my sons, the master Faustus and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions who exercise the public office of legate, when they returned to the City, said that Your Clemency asked why I did not send my greeting to you in written form. Not, I confess, by my design; but since those who had been dispatched a little while ago from the regions of the East had spread [word] throughout the whole City that they had been denied permission of seeing me by your commands, I thought that I ought to refrain from [writing] letters, lest I be judged burdensome rather than dutiful. You see, therefore, that it came not from my dissembling, but rather from proper caution, lest I inflict annoyance on one minded to reject me. But when I learned that the benevolence of Your Serenity had, as indicated above, expected a word from my humility, then I truly recognized that I would not unjustly be blamed if I remained silent. For, glorious son, I as a Roman born love, honor, and accept you as the Roman Prince. And as a Christian I desire to have knowledge according to the truth with one who has zeal for God. And as the Vicar of the Apostolic See (of whatever quality), whenever I see something (however little) lacking from the fullness of the Catholic Faith, I attempt to supply it by moderate and timely suggestions. For the dispensing of the divine word has been enjoined on me: «woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel» (1 Cor 9:16). Because, if the vessel of election, blessed Paul the Apostle, is afraid and cries out, how much more urgently must I fear if in my preaching I omit anything from the ministry of preaching which has been divinely inspired and handed down by the piety of the fathers.
I pray your Piety not to judge [my] duty toward the divine plan as arrogance. Far be it from the Roman Prince, I beg, that he judge the truth that he senses in his heart to be an injury. For there are two, O emperor Augustus, by which the world is principally ruled: the sacred authority of pontiffs and the royal power. Among which how much heavier is the burden of priests, such that they will have to render an account to the Lord at the time of judgment even for those very kings.”
@neiltyson Sir! Is one able to calculate the percentage of a water droplet absorbed into a bigger pool during each phase of non-coalescence? I would assume it’s dependent on a whole slew of factors like temperature, elevation, etc.