The choir has arrived. It is dawn. A red glow hovers to the north, at the tree line, just past my window this late summer day. Today they arrived without my attention, though many days I watch for them. When I do finally look up, I see a few dozen “choristers” – small black birds, […]
Pope Leo
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Do we really want to be human?
Do we really want to be human? Sometimes I think not. I’m pondering this now in light of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On safeguarding humanity in the time of Artificial Intelligence. Billed as the “AI” encyclical, it is more than that. The document includes a masterful summary of Catholic Social Teaching. It recenters […]
