JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father.
Speakers at the presentation will include:
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;
Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development;
Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom;
Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence;
Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.
Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV.
Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.
Two months into his pontificate, a man named Robert Prevost picked up the phone from the Vatican and called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account.
The teller asked the standard security questions, and he answered every one of them. Then her screen flagged his file: any further changes had to be made in person, at the branch, with a photo ID.
Coming in person would not be possible, he told her, in the polite tone of a man who knew the answer before he asked the question. The teller apologized.
He paused, then asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?”
She hung up on him. https://t.co/8tmnS3hg62
As a priest, who has celebrated Holy Communion twice today and is departing for a Cistercian monastery tomorrow, can I just say that this 'Easter Egg rage' is nonsense.
If you care that much, get yourself to church, and then perhaps you will realise that our faith is not based on confectionary or its packaging.
Beyond sad to hear of the passing of Jamie Dunn. I was fortunate enough to interview him in January for a look back at his extraordinary life.
He was in great spirits.
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BREAKING🚨: For the first time since 1863, Ramadan, Lent, and Lunar New Year are all taking place at the same time 🤯
An exceptional event that will only happen again in 2189.
Wow, Global TV in Canada has an agreement to broadcast 60 Minutes for Canadian audiences.
They received their copy before Bari Weiss killed the story.
And while they delayed it (likely to check with lawyers) they’ve now uploaded the FULL unedited release!!
Well done! 🫡