Catholic theologian and Our Sunday Visitor columnist Brett Salkeld doesn’t own a smartphone (which, needless to say, is a rarity these days). He writes: “This leads to inconveniences. I am expected to use a smartphone to track (and interact with) my kids’
The U.S. bishops are encouraging Catholics to join them in asking Congress to protect children online, both from viewing pornography and from becoming victims of child pornography and exploitation.
In a June 9 action alert, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Department of
While the streaming show “The Chosen” has become a massive hit that is beloved by viewers around the world, Leonard DeLorenzo, a theology professor at Notre Dame, writes that he had to stop watching for one key reason. He writes: “In the
Eyebrows were raised recently when the board of Virginia’s Marymount University dumped its majors in art, economics, English, history, philosophy, theology and religious studies, among others.
The university explained that the decision reflected “our responsibility to prepare them for the fulfilling, in-demand careers
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor editor Father Patrick Briscoe writes that while fake news is rampant and AI generated images can trick us into believing what we ordinarily would not, the evidence that Christ died on the cross and rose
Pope Francis asked tech leaders to measure the value of their innovations not in processing power or profit potential, but in their capacity to promote human dignity.
The people behind chatbots are asking questions of priests and ethicists rather than turning to their artificially intelligent creations. They want to know: What is consciousness? What is the nature of humanity? What is the purpose of life?
According to Father Phillip Larrey,
“Meta” is a term we hear a lot these days, in many contexts. From the Greek for “beyond,” it often refers to an expanding of horizons, taking something that already exists to new and possibly previously-unconceived-of places. The so-called “metaverse” is a
There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment that almost everyone -- perhaps with the exception of Big Tech companies themselves -- agrees is increasingly dangerous for
Elizabeth Scalia explores how parenting has been affected by technology and how it can be a real threat to ordinary family dynamics