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‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Through the Lens of St. Augustine

Marco Iacobucci Epp / Maerten de Vos Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine of Hippo COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV approaches the AI age less as a technological problem than as an Augustinian question of love and communion.

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Pope Leo XIV published the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"). This document addresses the dignity of the human person in the face of the challenges of technology, including artificial intelligence. The article by Prof. Dariusz KOWALCZYK SJ: Man in the Age of Artificial Intelligence comes from the website Wszystko co mojego.

In his first encyclical Magnifica humanitas, published on May 25, Pope Leo XIV calls for "disarming" artificial intelligence (AI). But can this technology, which requires a great deal of computing power and a whole software infrastructure, escape a logic of domination and exploitation?

Is artificial intelligence the new Tower of Babel? The papal encyclical charts a moral course in an age of digital chaos.

On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV presented Magnifica Humanitas, a 250-paragraph text and nearly 40,000 words that is the world's first major doctrinal document dedicated to the digital revolution—and one of the most ambitious ever produced by a non-governmental institution—read more about the article When the Church takes the lead on AI: "Magnifica Humanitas", the encyclical that disturbs digital giants in UP' Magazine.

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National Catholic Register broke the news on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
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