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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.’…
“Corruption Begins at the Top” – Fr. Altman on the Hidden Third Secret
“Corruption Begins at the Top” – Fr. Altman on the Hidden Third Secret at LifeSite…
Pope names first lay woman as head of a Vatican department
Andorra stalls pro-abortion bill pending Vatican talks, minister confirms
Andorra's government has a fully drafted bill to decriminalize abortion but will not advance it while dialogue with the Holy See remains ongoing, a minister confirmed June 1.…
Who is Chris Olah? The atheist Anthropic cofounder the Pope chose to sit beside him at the Vatican and tell the tech industry it can’t govern itself
The Anthropic cofounder is worth $8 billion and won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in 2012.…
Chicago rabbi gifts Pope Leo XIV a White Sox kippah during Vatican visit
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and a native of Chicago’s South Side, repeatedly advocated after his selection last year for the release of the Israeli hostages.…
BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: Pope Leo sees the AI age clearly — and warns we must save our souls
Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas addresses AI, Catholic social teaching, war and peace, and the technocratic paradigm threatening human dignity today.…
Magnifica Humanitas: A critical and timely counterweight
For some, artificial intelligence and its related components represent a boon for the human community. A tool of unimaginable power that will finally enable us to control almost ev…
Anthropic’s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or ‘Vatican-washing?’
Experts say AI firm’s engagement with Vatican risks creating ‘feelgood’ discourse that lacks critical examination…
Chicago Mayor Johnson hopes to enlist pope in reparations fight after he apologized for 'scourge of slavery'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to ask Pope Leo XIV to use his pulpit to support reparations as part of his Repair Chicago initiative addressing historical harms.…
Pope Leo XIV to hold worldwide Rosary for peace on Saturday
The Holy Father has invited all Catholic faithful from around the world to ask the Blessed Mother for enduring peace on earth.…
Pope Leo meets with Chicago's far-left mayor, George Floyd's family lawyer at the Vatican
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, presenting gifts including a Cubs hat, a city key and immigrant advocacy materials.…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.…
Saints and Sinners, From the Vatican to the Alamo
Texas just got a lot more interesting.…
Ad multos annos: Leo and the coming curial birthday
Who is due for replacement in the Roman curia?…
Many portions of Magnifica Humanitas appear to be AI-written
Magnifica Humanitas is a recent ‘encyclical’ by Pope Leo XIV, leader of the Catholic Church. It outlines a vision for how humanity should interact wi……
Pope Leo XIV meets Pedro Sánchez at the Vatican ahead of Spain visit
Video. Pope Leo XIV received Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on 27 May, as preparations continue for the pontiff’…
Pope Leo decries 'sharp intensification' of war in Ukraine
Pope Leo expresses grave concern over the escalating war in Ukraine, urging for peace and compassion for affected civilians.…
World in pictures this week, May 28, 2026
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors…
A progressive pope takes aim at AI and risks killing its miracles
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical warns AI threatens humanity and calls for regulation, echoing Sen. Bernie Sanders' push for a federal moratorium.…
Peter Thiel Vs Pope Leo — Silicon Valley and the Vatican battle over who’s the real antichrist
A cold war has broken out between Silicon Valley and the Vatican, as they accuse one another of jeopardizing humanity’s future.…
Trump officials split over Pope Leo’s AI warning as Vatican feud enters new front
Pope Leo XIV’s AI warning shows split among Trump officials as the White House resists new guardrails, upping stakes with Catholic voters and Silicon Valley allies.…
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.…
BREAKING: Pope’s Classmate Exposes Vatican Synodality Document as ‘The Great Deception’
BREAKING: Pope’s Classmate Exposes Vatican Synodality Document as ‘The Great Deception’ at LifeSite…
Overview and Comments of Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI. At eighty two pages of length. • The full Magnifica Humanitas can be found here. ……
The AI Industry Just Walked into the Vatican
Big Tech spent a decade calling old institutions obsolete. Now it's looking to them for help.…
Judge Andrew Napolitano praises Latin Mass, calls Pope Leo XIV ‘Francis II’
Napolitano said at an event honoring Fr. John Perricone that the Latin Mass that he attends is like ‘another religion’ compared to the ‘American watered-down Protestantized Mass.’…
Excerpts from Pope Leo XIV's manifesto about humanity in the AI era
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has issued a sweeping manifesto about safeguarding humanity in the era of artificial intelligence, examining the many social areas that the technol…
The Vatican Takes on Silicon Valley With an A.I. Warning
Why everyone is talking about the Antichrist
In case you didn’t notice, the Antichrist is back. All right, forgive the hyperbole — this biblical agent of Satan hasn’t actually returned to lead a rebellion against God before C…
Vatican tech flop: Pope Leo’s AI crusade needs Trump — not the UN
Leo compares AI to the Tower of Babel, yet that image applies at least as well to the UN.…
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Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI
Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence . This is a very inter…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah addresses Vatican on AI ethics, warns of labor displacement ‘at very large scale’
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah addressed the Vatican alongside Pope Leo XIV, warning AI may mirror emotions and displace labor at very large scale.…
Pope Leo warns AI risks becoming tool of 'domination, exclusion and death' in new encyclical
The pope unveils "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, warning artificial intelligence risks becoming a tool of domination unless governments set moral limits.…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery - AP News
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery AP News…
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery
The pope takes on AI
Monday morning, the Roman Catholic Church made its biggest foray yet into the discourse on artificial intelligence and the role it should play in human life as the technology devel…
Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope
As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, technology firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case inside the Vatican.…
Pope Says AI Should Be Disarmed to Avoid Dominating Humanity
Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be “disarmed” to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery…
Sources: execs from Meta, Google, and Amazon met with Vatican officials in April, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (Océane Herrero/Politico)
Is Pope Leo Joining the Anti-AI Resistance?
Having spoken out for the welfare of immigrants and against the war in Iran—and drawn the ire of some American conservatives in the process—Pope Leo XIV is now calling on the world…
The unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping AI ethics debate
(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.…
How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
Coptic Church resumes dialogue with Vatican after Leo gives ‘assurances’ about homosexual ‘blessings’
Pope Leo reportedly assured the Coptic patriarch about ‘the non-blessing of same-sex couples’ in a phone call, though Leo seemed to reaffirm ‘informal’ homosexual ‘blessings’ in Ap…
Ep. 262: Recollect! Allocate! Celebrate!
The Vatican’s synod department sets this week some deadlines ahead of a 2028 ecclesial assembly in Rome.…
Vatican cardinal warns of ‘painful consequences’ from AI ‘deepfakes’
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, addressed concerns about the impact of AI on society before Pope Leo's encyclical is releas…
Vatican taps ‘atheist’ Anthropic cofounder to speak at AI event as tensions with Trump White House rise
Olah, 33, is one of a handful of secular officials tapped to speak at a Monday event marking the publication of the missive, which is titled “Magnifica Humanitas.” The encyclical i…
Giants-White Sox Series Preview: Mass Appeal
The White Sox are having fun. Will the Giants be able to make them as miserable as they’ve made their fans?…
The Marquis, the Island, the Diary, and the Deal: The Casati Stampa Murders
The Casati Stampa case had everything: wealth, scandal, obsession, diaries and murder. One of Italy’s strangest and most disturbing true crime stories unfolded in Rome in 1970.…
Vatican tours that will save you hours of waiting in line
Cardinal Fernández reveals what will be in upcoming ‘transmission of the faith’ document
The pronounced heterodoxy of Fernández calls into question the substance of the forthcoming document.…
Vatican’s pro-LGBT Synod report is a blueprint for doctrinal demolition
The report’s relentless focus on ‘discernment’ and ‘inclusion’ reveals an effort to normalize homosexuality within Church life and teaching while emphasizing a ‘transformation of p…
Armenian Church leader urges Pope Leo XIV to convene Third Vatican Council in private meeting
Leo XIV expressed 'understanding and support' for the proposal, which also included a unified Easter date and a shared martyrs' commemorative day, per an Armenian Church statement.…
Synodality, but not a synod: Inside the new timetable for the 2028 'ecclesial assembly'
What’s the new document’s context? And what does it say?…
BREAKING: Vatican releases new document on implementing the Synod
The so-called ‘implementation phase’ of the controversial Synod ‘invites communities to experiment with more synodal practices and forms of ecclesial life,’ a new Vatican document …
Co-Founder At Center Of Pentagon Feud Helps Shape Vatican AI Guidance
'Preserving the human person'…
Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical - AP News
Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical AP News…