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The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (709+ words) Walter Scheirer, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Pope Leo XIV recently found himself in a position many of today’s students can relate to: having his writing tested for signs of artificial intelligence use. Proudly Human, a tech company that…...
Pope begins his summer break after decisive flexing of muscle on international and church stage
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (1084+ words) Leo is spending the rest of July at the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, the Vatican's historic summer residence south of Rome that the American pope has turned into his weekly getaway for tennis and swimming. The Vatican said Leo…...
The homilies and addresses of Pope Leo XIV are now coming to English readers
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (83+ words) Chron “Freedom Under Grace: Reflections on the Spiritual Tradition That Formed Me” is scheduled for Sept. 15, according to Image Books, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group. Released in Italian by the Vatican Publishing House earlier this…...
Pope visiting 'dock of shame' in Canary Islands where migrants slept in squalor
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (598+ words) Leo is spending the final two days of his weeklong trip to Spain in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago closer to Africa than the Iberian Peninsula that is a key point of entry for migrants smuggled from West Africa....
US Catholic bishops are consecrating the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Here's what that means
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (822+ words) To mark the 250th anniversary the United States, Catholic bishops from across the nation will come together Thursday to consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The church service, part of the bishops’ spring assembly meeting in Orlando, Florida,…...
Pope names Mexican-American broadcasting executive to lead Vatican communications
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (165+ words) Chron Maria Montserrat Alvarado replaces Paolo Ruffini as prefect of the Dicastery of Communications, the office that controls the Vatican’s television, radio, online, publishing and newspaper operations. It enjoys one of the biggest budgets of any Vatican department. By naming…...
'Love my woke pope': Why Leo's first encyclical went viral and how it speaks to his papal approach
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (880+ words) In another viral post, one X user referenced a common meme in response to the encyclical, writing: “The atheism leaving my body the moment the pope starts talking about how AI is an affront to God and the new Tower…...
Returning to the fold? Some young Spaniards embrace Catholicism and can’t wait for Pope Leo’s visit
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1198+ words) Until three years ago, Sara Cabral’s faith experience was on trend with other Southern European youth — a “Catholic but never practicing” upbringing with little relevance to her life on Spain’s Canary Islands. Then she listened to a song from a…...
'Tax-free grift': Critics fume over Texas church's Christmas extravaganza
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (340+ words) Plano's Prestonwood Baptist Church is preparing to welcome thousands (including skeptics and cynics) to its campus for the annual "Gift of Christmas" production They've been waiting for this all year: Prestonwood Baptist Church's controversial Christmas production "The Gift of Christmas…...
Peru's Catholic Church holds a symbolic ceremony in apology for Indigenous land dispossession
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (432+ words) The Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was dissolved din 2025 by the late Pope Francis, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation that uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its…...