The annual New York Encounter, held Feb. 16-18 and organized by the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, had as this year's theme, "Tearing Open the Sleeping Soul," addressing with music, poetry and panel discussions, "a sense of paralysis in front of
Any response to AI can find a foundation in Catholic social teaching, famously emphasized in Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on capital and labor "Rerum Novarum."
"The tradition of Catholic social teaching started as a kind of a response to the industrial revolution,"
For those who follow the daily churnings of Congress, Capitol Hill is a familiar venue for the official political theater of committee hearings -- hearings so routine and numerous they can sometimes fade into the public subconsciousness, if registering at all.
But Jan.
While artificial intelligence can be a formidable tool to facilitate communication and exchange information, it cannot provide the uniquely human wisdom needed to promote the good of people and their communities, Pope Francis said.
"No doubt, machines possess a limitlessly greater capacity than
"In a recent discussion of the potential benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence, a friend expressed that those developing such technologies were ‘playing God.’ At this point everyone nodded solemnly. No one needed to say that this was a bad thing. But
"Artificial intelligence ought to serve our best human potential and our highest aspirations, not compete with them," the pope said in his message for the Jan. 1 commemoration of World Peace Day.
The message, "Artificial Intelligence and Peace," was addressed to all men
Signaling the Vatican's growing engagement in efforts to ensure the ethical development of new technologies, the Vatican has announced that "Artificial Intelligence and Peace" will be the theme for the next World Day of Peace, which is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2024.
Catholic universities must not recoil from the daunting risks of artificial intelligence but become proactively involved in its ethical development, said the head of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.
Catholic universities are obligated "to a delicate exercise of responsibility" in the "new
Joseph Vukov is an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also an affiliate faculty member in psychology and Catholic Studies. He is the author of "Navigating Faith and Science" (2022) and "The Perils of Perfection: On the
For 17 years, the media ethics conference at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow has gathered media researchers from all over the country. This year it attracted a record number of academics. The reason? The main topic was the