Making music can save us from the dehumanization of AI
Each of us has it in our power to minimize the effects of AI on our personal will, creativity, and connection with others.
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Articles tagged Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s June consistory to focus on ‘just war’ theory, synodality, encyclical – not liturgy
A new letter from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re outlines consistory sessions on ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ the ‘international situation,’ synodal implementation, and ‘the common good.’
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Pope Leo’s AI encyclical falls short because its horizon is too earthly
The dominant tone of the encyclical is humanist and institutional, not penitential and evangelical.
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Pope Leo diagnoses the dangers of AI but fails to provide the cure
Our veteran computer engineer reviews Pope Leo's 'Magnifica Humanitas' and in Part I agrees that AI is very dangerous.
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The Church ended slavery. So why is Leo XIV apologizing?
The new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas contains an apology for the Church's 'delays' regarding slavery. But is this just?
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Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas: a blueprint for the destruction of the Catholic Church
In Leo XIV's new society, 'the poor, the sick, the migrants and the least among us – will become the cornerstone' and not Jesus Christ.
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Swiss theologian: Pope Leo’s encyclical failed to address ‘chaotic legacy’ of Francis
Swiss theologian Fr. Martin Grichting argues the Pope's debut encyclical signals a desire to appear ‘contemporary’ rather than serve the Catholic Church's most urgent needs.
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AI detector finds Pope Leo’s new encyclical was partly AI-generated: report
Researcher Linch Zhang said a leading AI detector flagged some paragraphs of Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas encyclical as partially or even completely composed by AI.
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EU ban on AI ‘nudifier’ apps welcomed by European bishops’ conference
EU lawmakers reached a provisional deal banning AI systems that generate non-consensual ‘intimate’ imagery, with Europe’s Catholic bishops praising the measure.
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Bishop Strickland: Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical centers on a theology of man, not God
When human dignity becomes detached from the sovereignty of God, Christianity risks becoming reduced to an ethical or humanitarian vision.
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