From displacing workers worldwide to aiding in the perpetuation and depersonalization of war, AI is positioned and run in a way that runs counter to aspects of Christian life

He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it no…

In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time...

Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.

The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.

Pope Leo's first encyclical voices his concerns about technology and AI. The pope cautions about the illusions AI bots can create, and how important actual human relationships are.

Many admirers of his new encyclical have misidentified its main target.

Rite and Reason: Magnifica Humanitas considers what it might mean to safeguard the best parts of being human in the time of artificial intelligence

From displacing workers worldwide to aiding in the perpetuation and depersonalization of war, AI is positioned and run in a way that runs counter to aspects of Christian life

In May, Pope Leo XIV discussed artificial intelligence in his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas."