Artificial Intelligence is growing fast, making the Church face new challenges

Artificial Intelligence is growing fast, making the Church face new challenges

Giving the homily during one of his daily Masses, Pope Francis made a remark to the effect that he would baptize aliens if they asked for it. It was off-the-cuff, as his reflections on the readings of the day usually were, and it caused a bit of a stir. Francis gave the remark on May 12, 2014, part of considerations he offered on the subject of baptizing “unthinkable” people. “If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came to us here a…