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College students launch "Acutis AI" to bring Catholic teaching to artificial intelligence
9+ hour, 22+ min ago (825+ words) April 12, 2026 Francesca Pollio Fenton News Briefs 0 Print A new AI platform called Acutis AI has been developed by two brothers who want to create a search tool shaped by Catholic morality and teaching. As artificial intelligence reshapes the world around…...
A Realist Outline of History, Part One
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (444+ words) April 12, 2026 Joseph K. Woodard Essay, Features, History 0 Print Editor's note: This is the first part of a two-part essay. Meanwhile, nurtured by Christian service, populations grew, and technology, urbanization, and mass communications marched on. This fueled an inevitable growth of public…...
To Dwell in the Side of Christ
1+ week, 2+ day ago (762+ words) This devotion sounds more than a little jarring to us today, but it has deep roots in both Scripture and Tradition, and constitutes a unique challenge'and invitation'to Christians in our time. April 3, 2026 Matthew Becklo Essay, Features 0 Print In his'Introduction to…...
New CEO of Catholic AI group hopes members will be Pope Leo's "soldiers'
1+ week, 3+ day ago (373+ words) April 2, 2026 Madalaine Elhabbal News Briefs 0 Print Builders AI Forum (BAIF) held its first conference at the Vatican in November 2025 and now hopes to be part of advancing Pope Leo XIV's mission on artificial intelligence. Builders AI Forum (BAIF), an organization…...
Pope Leo XIV warns children should not look to chatbots for friendship
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1277+ words) March 24, 2026 Victoria Cardiel News Briefs 0 Print The pope cautioned that AI risks dulling young people's intelligence, relationships, and creativity. Pope Leo XIV warned that children must not come to see artificial intelligence chatbots as substitutes for real friendship, cautioning that…...
Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1675+ words) The hermeneutical frameworks applied by Communio scholars are all very Trinitarian and Christocentric," says the Australian theologian, "they see the moral life as a process whereby people grow into the likeness of Christ by participating in the virtues of Christ....
Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits
2+ week, 6+ day ago (575+ words) We face a fundamental choice between the illusory path of self-divinization and the true path of divinization through grace and self-sacrifice, the way of theosis'through'kenosis. March 22, 2026 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph. D. Columns, Features, God's Two Books 0 Print It's no secret that we…...
Catholic ethicists file amicus brief backing Anthropic in Pentagon dispute
3+ week, 3+ day ago (753+ words) March 18, 2026 Jonah Mc Keown News Briefs 0 Print Catholic moral theologians say Church teaching supports Anthropic's refusal to allow its AI systems to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Anthropic, creator of the widely adopted AI assistant Claude, ran…...
Preach from the heart, not with AI-generated homilies, priest says
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1226+ words) March 18, 2026 Almudena Mart'nez-Bordi" News Briefs 0 Print Using AI, a priest could very well produce a well-written, theologically sound homily, but should he? Several priests share their perspective about this new tool. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in full bloom in 2026, impacting…...
Lived Experience" and Moral Tradition: Rivals or Partners?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (699+ words) March 16, 2026 Richard M. Doerflinger Essay, Features, Opinion 0 Print One question facing Pope Leo XIV will be whether to advance the "new paradigm" for moral theology proposed by Pope Francis and some of his advisors in recent years. In one striking passage,…...