Category: Pope Leo XIV

More thoughts on Magnifica Humanitas

In the past, I've used this blog to post full-length, fully developed pieces. For a while, I've been wanting to make the shift to also using this blog as a developing ground for my ideas, posting reflections on articles or half-formed arguments. Today's article is in that vein. I've already posted some initial reflections on … Continue reading More thoughts on Magnifica Humanitas →

First Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas

Reading Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, I was pleased to find some arguments very much aligned with some of the directions I've been thinking with regard to AI and Technology. Paragraph 92 cites Pope Francis in critiquing the "technological paradigm" which judges everything in terms of efficiancy: In his Encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis denounced the … Continue reading First Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas →