Bishop Welcomes Pope Leo XIV’s First Major Document

Can Wars Still Be Just? Pope Leo XIV Addresses the Issue in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

Photo illustration by kirill_makarov War photo illustration The destructive power of modern weaponry and dubious claims to justification mean just war theory, which includes legitimate self-defense, must be reexamined.

Bishop welcomes Pope Leo XIV’s first major document

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence during a press conference on Monday.

Can war be justified? Pope Leo addresses the issue in Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a paean to peace that warns of the danger of “a world in a permanent state of belligerence" even more threatening than the Cold War era.In that era, the pope writes, despite the existence of grave conflicts, “the awareness persisted that a new global conflict had to be avoided at all costs.”Following the Second World War, “peace was made the focus of the international order, as attested in…

Disarm AI: What Pope Leo XIV Really Said and Why It Matters

The headlines wrote themselves: the Catholic Church versus Silicon Valley. The Pope pushing back against Big Tech. An ancient institution telling the future to slow down. If that’s the version you got, you got the wrong story. A video by @cfddose on Instagram stopped me mid-scroll. The creator — a software engineer who builds AI tools — was talking about Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Not from a theological angle. From a t…