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LEO TAKES UP THEME OF VATICAN II AND LITURGY |
In what is sure to be a closely watched series of catechesis, Pope Leo took up today another document from the Second Vatican Council in his general audiences dedicated to the event, This May 20 he began reflecting on the Council's document on liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. |
THE CLERICAL FILES: EXPOSING THE POWER OF HOLY PRIVILEGE |
The toxic reality of survivors having to plead their cases before the same celibate men who make, interpret and enforce Church law creates a system of silence and complicity. Toxic theology and statutes in the Code of Canon Law that promote and perpetuate the ‘holy privilege,’ which leads to a dysfunctional Church, must be recognized, condemned, and eliminated. |
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has generated many headlines because of its focus on artificial intelligence. A reader coming to the document from those headlines would understandably be surprised to find that the first two chapters—out of five total—barely discuss A.I. at all.
However, I think that when “Magnifica Humanitas” is quoted and cited by theologians and future popes, as it certainly will be, those first two chapters will be referenced most often. Part of the reason is that discussions of A.I., as Leo notes himself, become “quickly outdated, given the remarkable pace at which these systems are developing.”
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It was a question that was bound to be asked after Pope Leo XIV wrote about artificial intelligence in “Magnifica Humanitas.”
Even though Pope Leo’s first encyclical is more about human dignity,
much of the document comments on and critiques A.I. Almost immediately,
critics asked what the Holy Father and the Vatican could possibly know
about such a complex topic.
One executive in Silicon Valley said to The New York Times
the Vatican “couldn’t have a position on [A.I.], because they don’t
understand it.” In an interview on Fox Business, Interior Secretary Doug
Burgum said, “I didn’t know that tech editorializing was part of the
role of being pope.” This is the main critique: Pope Leo should stay in
his lane. On the other side are those who felt the encyclical did not go
far enough—again, because the pope does not understand A.I., in this
case, the threats it poses. Overly “sanguine,” said one commentator about the Holy Father, critiquing his encyclical as “disappointingly measured and cautious.”
So why should we listen to the pope?
