Zac Davis

Associate Editor and Sr. Director of Digital @americamag, cohost of @jesuiticalshow. @LoyolaChicago alum.

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

My column from the @USCCB in Baltimore this week in @americamag

When it mattered, the bishops came through. And maybe it’s time to retire (or at least update) a few narratives we have about division within the conference and with Rome

https://t.co/uKfJ72MGM4

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Pope Leo, any interest in helping out the @Browns defense this year?

[Mary Ann Ahern @MaryAnnAhernNBC]

IL State Rep Kam Buckner meets @Pontifex today and hear Pope Leo joke about playing football.

[Kim Daniels @KDaniels8]

Wonderful to see laywoman @MontseEWTN appointed prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication. Montse is a longtime friend, an experienced leader, and a real pro, and will bring so much to reform efforts. A major step in internationalization of Vatican communications.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

1/3 I don’t share that fear. She’s an energetic, articulate communicator, likeable, and by all accounts an excellent manager. Her record reassures: she has sought to bring EWTN into the mainstream, and deplores the work-of-the-devil Arroyo show.

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

@JLLiedl Love this so much

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Pope Leo, artificial intelligence and the desires technology will never satisfy.

My latest in @americamag
https://t.co/veGJGbVTCm

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

@JLLiedl I remain a big fan of the document overall. Just been sitting with that one for a few days

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

I am still a bit stunned that Magnifica Humanitas had basically nothing to say about AI-generated art. Its main concern was about what makes us authentically human, I know. But how much of our humanity is lost when we farm out the creation of culture to the machines?

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

@JLLiedl No, I think a discerning reader will draw some of these conclusions on their own. But I am seeing an awful lot of AI-generated art to accompany commentary on the encyclical, so I might be wrong there!

I would have liked to see a more robust/explicit treatment in the doc itself.

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

In his encyclical, +Leo XIV criticized transhumanism-- not for seeking to much, but too little. Instead, he offered what he called "the authentic 'more than human.'"

What was he talking about? Something at the heart of Catholicism called "deification." 👇
https://t.co/DeHk6XuWcA

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

@DavidAFrench I get and share the frustration here but I also have a soft spot for the desire to memorialize and ritualize rites of passage, even if it is done imperfectly. Our culture would benefit from more of this effort, not less, I think

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

For Pope Francis, the emblematic image of the church he desired was that of a “field hospital.”

Pope Leo has sketched out his own: A construction site.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Ricky O'Donnell @SBN_Ricky]

The 8-foot guy making clutch logo threes, sure.

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

wemby lol

[Rocco Palmo @roccopalmo]

For a profoundly leak-free pontificate, the advance rumblings (title/signing date echoing Rerum Novarum) indeed held up….

The Pope presiding at his encyclical’s launch-event, however – capped by his own major speech introducing it – is entirely new, and unforeseen.

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Cavs in 6

[ESPN @espn]

CAVS. KNICKS. EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS 🍿

WHO YOU GOT?

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Seems like a lot of people were just trusting the same unsourced reporting that the pope’s new encyclical would drop today, huh?

[Zac Davis @zacdayvis]

Bishop Erik Varden: "I don’t think AI is going to generate any spiritual renewal, because any spiritual renewal worthy of its name is one that pierces the human heart, and that is something that an algorithm can’t do."
https://t.co/vIizRfxRbr

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

“Talk softly and carry a big crozier.”