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While John Brown sat in the Jefferson County Jail awaiting his execution in 1859 after his failed attempt to spark an uprising at Harpers Ferry, a local Catholic priest visited him. The priest tried to persuade Brown of slavery’s legitimacy. After all, he told Brown, in St. Paul’s letter to Philemon, “we are informed that [St. Paul] sent back th...
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnificas humanitas is about more than artificial intelligence, in the same way that Pope Francis’ Laudato si’ was about more than the environment and Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum—the foundational document of modern Catholic social teaching—was about more than l...
From an institutional point of view, the most consequential, long-term legacy left by Pope Francis to his successor is synodality. While Paul VI had conceived and instituted the Bishops’ Synod in 1965, it was not for “synodality” as we think of it now, but was rather an expression of episcopal collegiality between the bishop...
What does it mean to be human when the very structure of thought, work, and belief is being rewritten by machines that learn? This is the question at the heart of Magnifica humanitas, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, signed on May 15, 2026. The document is not a treatise on artificial intelligence. It is a treatise on th...
The phone rang at two in the morning like a siren in a war zone. I sat up quickly and answered the call in a hushed voice, careful not to wake my wife or the children who had found their way into our bed during the night.
How unaffected we become even by the most unusual and extreme circumstances when those circumstances become routine. The...