Benedict Coleridge

@FU_Berlin @YaleLawSch @Politics_Oxford | law, political philosophy.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Gregory Elich @GregoryElich]

Christian Lamouroux offers a masterful reinterpretation of the Song empire, focusing on its interactions with its neighbors and emphasizing its crucial role in the longer economic, social, and political history of China, East Asia, and the world.
https://t.co/Tb8K28nSrO

[Catholicism in East Asia @TheChurchInAsia]

An East Syriac Church pillar from 814–815 AD, with the first half titled "The Sūtras on the Origin of Origins of the Daqin Luminous Religion," found in Luòyáng, China. Not Catholic, but still an interesting artifact of early documented Chinese Christianity. 1/2

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

I am one of three editors for the series Studies in Comparative Political Theory published by Oxford University Press. We would love to receive your manuscripts. All the details are here: https://t.co/mbcc4FJMzo

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

New @equatormag – an interview with senior Vatican adviser @antoniospadaro on the political and philosophical significance of Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI

[Mehmood @ChalParranHo]

I’m getting jealous of Indians sharing beautiful pictures of Lodhi gardens and other monuments in India. Okay, so I have also visited some places in Lahore in the past few weeks, sharing my photos here.

Entrance of Lahore fort:

[St John's College @StJohnsOx]

The College is very sad to learn of the death of Sir Anthony Kenny, Emeritus Fellow of St John’s and formerly Warden of Rhodes House and Master of Balliol College, on 3 August 2026 at the age of 95.

https://t.co/D04KzXpggF

[سوري عتيق @mazz_moe26808]

الشارع المستقيم في دمشق الذي يقسم المدينة القديمة من شرقها لغربها وامتداد سوق مدحت باشا الصورة عام ١٩٥١ .
#سوريا_دمشق
#دمشق_القديمة

[The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy]

Philoraios performing a stunt in the Hippodrome of Constantinople from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes
From Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

In the 1620s, Jesuit missionaries in China discovered an ancient stone stele buried beneath vines

It described a “Luminous Religion” [Christianity] brought to the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century by monks of the Assyrian Church of the East, before later suppression

[JM News Network @JMNewsNetwork_]

Arameans community of the Syriac orthodox church praying in Aramaic.

The prayer is performed 7 times a day and it’s fulfilled in a way where men lead on the front while women pray behind.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Worth while time to read this book : https://t.co/fAfRA6UBHH

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Catholic University can form pioneers of a new humanism in the context of the digital revolution. This is a service to the truth and to all humanity. Without this demanding educational effort, passive adaptation to dominant paradigms will be mistaken for competence, and the loss of freedom for progress. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[SaveTheArQ @SavetheArQ]

Armenian seminarian rhythmically striking the 'Gotchnag' (wooden semantron) outside the Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter.

When church bells were often restricted under Ottoman rule, this older tradition endured, and still echoes to this day.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Excellent from Adom Getachew writing in The Nation on Howard French's new book: Freedom Struggles
The global politics of Kwame Nkrumah
https://t.co/VPID08cL8x

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The wars that stain the present moment with blood are the fruit of the idolatry of power and money. Let us not grow accustomed to the clamor of weapons and images of war! #Peace is not merely a balance of power. It is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated. #ApostolicJourney https://t.co/WeRUclJHqq

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

I wrote about Lebanon in the NYRB online: "A strong state cannot emerge out of an all-out assault, let alone out of occupation. War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi."

[Mithi Mukherjee @mithimukherjee]

I am delighted to share that my book Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom is published today. @IndianHistory_C @historycong @AAPIData.

It explores the transnational history of Asianism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its role in shaping Indian anticolonialism against British rule. #AsianHistory #NewBook #PanAsianism #IndianHistory #GlobalSouth #postcolonial #GlobalHistory