Catholic Institute of Technology

Forming the next generation of saints, scholars, and scientists.

An American research university located in the heart of the Catholic Church

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The leaders, innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are being formed today.

At CatholicTech, education is about more than acquiring knowledge or technical skills. It is about forming the whole person, mind, heart, and soul, to pursue truth, serve others, and use technology responsibly in the service of human dignity.

The habits we build, the virtues we cultivate, and the choices we make today will shape the future we create tomorrow.

The future doesn't begin after graduation. It begins now.

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Let's take a look at the introduction to Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical...

The introduction to this document focuses on a central question: How do we use technology, and how can we use it for good rather than harm?

Pope Leo emphasizes the need to engage in dialogue about how to promote human dignity and rebuild fraternal coexistence.

How can we avoid constructing a new Tower of Babel and instead help rebuild the City of God?

#catholictech #catholic #technologyethics #artificialintelligence #popeleoxiv

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Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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A formed person is not the busiest person.

It is the least divided.

The life of Mary, mother of Jesus shows what that looks like:

attention without distraction
action without fragmentation
presence without noise

Unity is the goal.

#CatholicTech #InteriorLife #Formation #Unity

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For decades, beta-blockers were considered standard after a heart attack.

New research suggests that assumption may need reevaluation, especially for women.

The REBOOT trial found no overall benefit in many patients with preserved heart function, and a follow-up analysis showed women receiving beta-blockers had significantly worse outcomes than women who did not receive them.

Good science requires more than discovery. It requires the courage to question long-standing assumptions when evidence changes.

Sometimes innovation means removing a treatment, not adding one.

#catholictech #stem #research #innovation

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John Paul II described work as something that shapes the person, not just the world.

This reframes the idea of success: it is not only about output, it is about formation.

In that sense, vocation is not a constraint on work, but rather is what gives work meaning.

What is at work in each of us?

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Have you seen Pope Leo's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas?

Released yesterday by the Holy See, this document develops the Church's teaching in light of artificial intelligence and makes new questions of human dignity, labor, and the common good. 

Follow along with us over the next few weeks as we show some of the highlights of the document!

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Today we remember the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the Catholic Church through the Solemnity of Pentecost! This is one of the greatest solemnities of the liturgical year, marking an end to the Easter season and our mission as Christians to proclaim the gospel. 

The event of Pentecost is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles 2. The Apostles gathered in Jerusalem in the upper room of the house, and a strong wind filled the space. “Tongues of fire” rested upon each of them, and began to speak in different languages proclaiming the gospel. 

Pentecost reveals the Holy Spirit’s mission in the life of the Church. Jesus did not leave the Apostles, or us, to carry out the gospel alone; rather, the Holy Spirit was sent to guide, strengthen, and unite. 

While the Church did begin under Christ’s public ministry, Pentecost celebrates the moment that the Church was manifested to the world and when the public mission of the Church began. 

Come, Holy Spirit, come! 

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Do you have an impossible situation? Pray to St. Rita of Cascia on her feast day today!

Due to the many extraordinary events of her life St. Rita is one of the patron saints of impossible cases. Even though she had a great desire to join religious life, St. Rita’s parents arranged for her to marry at a young age. 

At the time, there was great political unrest in their city of Italy with open conflicts and violence between feuding families. Paolo, her husband, was a victim to one of these conflicts, leaving Rita a widow with two, young sons. While it was the social expectation to avenge his muder, Rita publicly forgave the murderer of her husband, and begged her sons to do the same. Shortly after that, her sons died from illness, leaving Rita both a widow and childless. 

Feeling once again called to religious life, Rita tried to enter the Augustine Sisters of St. Mary Magdalene, but was refused entry because her family and relatives had not forgiven the murderer of her husband. Determined to make peace, Rita convinced the families to set aside their hostility. After signing a written agreement to end the violence, Rita was finally accepted into the Augustinian convent. 

St. Rita spent the rest of her life in mediation and prayer there. At the age of 60, Rita received a stigmata of a thorn on her forehead while meditating on the image of Christ on the cross. This painful stigmata was like a fresh wound, causing her much pain, that she united to Christ’s pain in the Passion. It remained open until the day of her death. 

Many times, St. Rita is depicted holding roses. Towards the end of her life, a relative visited her and asked if there was anything she could do for Rita. At first, Rita declined, but then asked for a rose from the garden of her family home. Even though it was the dead of winter, her relative found a single, fresh rose in her snowy garden and brought it back to her. 

St. Rita became a saint in spite of all of violence and problems surrounding her, what are we being called to do to become saints?

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At CatholicTech, education is not just preparation, but it’s formation.

Formation for what? For the future...

Our students develop the habits of great scientists and engineers: analytical thinking, problem-solving, technical precision.

In classrooms, labs, and community life, students are challenged to connect what they can do with what they are called to do.

Because real education doesn’t stop at final grade, but is reflected on their whole life.

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When Georges Lemaître proposed an expanding universe, it contradicted the dominant belief in a static, eternal cosmos, but he trusted the math.

At CatholicTech, students are trained to follow truth wherever it leads, even when it challenges what the world assumes.

In our classrooms and labs, this same intellectual discipline is essential. Real discovery is not about confirming expectations, it’s about refining them in light of reality.

This is the kind of scientific thinking we form at CatholicTech: rooted in truth, open to wonder, and unafraid of where the evidence leads.

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Can someone be fully committed to both science and faith?

It’s often framed as a choice.
One path or the other.

But history doesn’t support that assumption.

Georges Lemaître was both a priest and a physicist.
He proposed that the universe had a beginning.

What later became known as the Big Bang.

His work didn’t come from ignoring faith.
It came from rigorous scientific thinking.

Science asks how the universe works.
Faith asks why it exists at all.

Those questions don’t compete.
They complete each other.

Full reflection in this week’s newsletter.

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Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord into heaven!

This feast celebrates that Christ, having passed from this world to the Father in heaven, is exalted in glory, so that we may hope to follow him. 

In this mystery, we believe that Jesus' departure is not merely a temporary absence, but the inauguration of a new, definitive way of His presence: that He is with always, even until the end of the Age. 

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In honor of Our Lady this May, we are reminded that the pursuit of truth is never separate from the pursuit of holiness. We crown Mary not only as Queen of Heaven, but as Mother and a guide of all who seek wisdom. 

Blessed are you, O Mary, the Word of Truth was cradled in your arms. Grant that we may seek wisdom with humility and grace, now and forever. 

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Applications to the @VaticanObserv Summer School 2027 are now open! 
This year’s theme: The Cosmic Legacy of Evolved Stars

Program includes studying:
▪️Stellar interiors
▪️Dust + Mass loss
▪️Population tracing 

Details:
📍Castel Gandolfo, Italy
📅May 30 - June 25, 2027
🪙No tuition + financial aid available

Apply by September 30, 2026 at: https://t.co/jyRP17fW0F

#vatican #vaticanobservatory #space #astrophysics #studyabroad

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Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
Her message is simple and urgent: pray the Rosary, seek conversion, and trust in God’s mercy.
Through Mary, God calls the world back to Himself.

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Artemis II didn’t end at splashdown, it began there.

At CatholicTech, students are formed in this same discipline: test, refine, and pursue truth until systems hold under pressure.

Real innovation isn’t fast. It’s faithful to reality.

Full article at: https://t.co/U7mOee3nTM

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At CatholicTech, we believe that the pursuit of truth, innovation, and faith calls for more than ease: it calls for courage. Our students are challenged to think deeply, build boldly, and live with purpose.

Greatness isn’t found in comfort zones. It’s forged in curiosity, discipline, and a desire to serve something greater than yourself.

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Most of the universe is made of something we have never seen.

Galaxies rotate too fast. Clusters hold together too tightly. Something unseen is shaping everything we observe—and we still don’t know what it is.

A recent study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics brings us a step forward in that search, not by detecting dark matter, but by ruling out where it might be hiding.

The focus is the axion, a hypothetical particle that could account for all dark matter. In theory, it could be passing through us constantly, almost completely undetectable. To catch even the faintest trace, researchers used a superconducting magnet and a precision-tuned microwave cavity to look for an impossibly small signal: a potential conversion of axions into photons.

After billions of measurements and careful noise correction, no signal appeared. But in physics, absence is not nothing.

The result significantly tightens the constraints on where axions in this mass range could exist, improving previous limits by more than two orders of magnitude. A once-plausible region of theory is now far more restricted, sharpening the map of what is still possible.

Read the full article at https://t.co/8ArrwCUQvE

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AI is reshaping the future of work, and the conversation is global. 

Earlier this week, CatholicTech was proud to co-sponsor an international dialogue at the Pontifical Gregorian University: AI & the Future of Work, bringing together leaders in tech, theology, and policy. 

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