“El advenimiento de una nueva era ya está en marcha, marcada por la inteligencia artificial y la conectividad. Se presentan oportunidades de empoderamiento así como desafíos éticos preocupantes.”
Reflection by Pope Leo XIV
"Artificial intelligence now demands to be 'disarmed,' freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death. Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all and of the common good. Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility. Peace, not merely the absence of war, is justice at work. But when technology weakens our critical sense, peace itself is at risk."
(Presentation of Magnifica humanitas, May 25, 2026)
Pope Leo XIV: "[A]s long as there are people in the world who are excluded from the development befitting human dignity, the Christian community cannot be content with a theoretical proclamation of peace. Rather, beginning where people are marginalized, it must allow the Gospel to pass judgment on those economic and political structures which -- as John Paul II would later remind us -- can become veritable 'structures of sin.' As a result, no person or people will be treated as expendable in the processes of development."
"Magnifica Humanitas" (36)
@CulturaUNAM@MUACunam También considerar El Colegio de México, y su participación en el desarrollo de vivienda - e.g. Colonia IMSS en Cd. Sahagún, Hgo.
Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas
"The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good."
—Pope Leo XIV
As Catholics and others read and pray with "Magnifica Humanitas," they will discover a wealth of beautiful passages and insights, as below. I read it once straight through for "content," but had to pause often because of the rich spiritual insights in almost every paragraph.