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Monday, June 8, 2026
Father Richard describes relationship as the nature of God and reality:
The Christian belief in the Trinity says that God is absolute relatedness. God is our word for the ultimate ecosystem that holds all things in positive relationship (see Colossians 1:17). As long as we’re in honest and loving relationship with what is right in front of us, the Spirit can keep working in us, through us, and for us.
Pew Research Center found that Catholic converts attend Mass more regularly than cradle Catholics.
The release in late May of Pope Leo’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” occasioned significant public interest because of the document’s focus on artificial intelligence and its impact on human life. But so too did other issues raised in the encyclical, including the viability of the Catholic Church’s venerable just war theory.
Ever since the United States and Israel initiated “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran on Feb. 28, we had already witnessed a resurgence of discussion of just war theory. I have read over 100 articles, opinion pieces and interviews during this time in which just war criteria were used either to criticize or to justify the war—from theologians, philosophers, ethicists, politicians and pundits to priests, bishops, archbishops and Vatican officials.
As promised from the beginning of his papacy, Leo XIV has given us an encyclical letter that continues the legacy of Rerum novarum, serving as an act of aggiornamento to address the economic conditions of 2026 as Leo XIII addressed the conditions of 1891. Magnifica humanitas makes this connection explicit by naming artificial intelligence as one of the “new things” of this era—though as Leo XIII certainly knew, res novae can also be translated as an idiom for “revolutions.” While Leo XIV is no wild-eyed prophet of revolution, his observations on artificial intelligence are embedded in a broader argument with radical implications for Catholic thought about political economy. But this is not a letter simply about economics. Along with its discussion of the common good and the “idolatry of profit,” Magnifica humanitas also advances views of the Church’s teaching authority and engagement with the secular world that may amount to a revolution in their own right—or at least a substantial reimagining of the tradition of Catholic social thought that Leo XIV inherits from his predecessors. Without pretending to find a fully developed ecclesiology in Magnifica humanitas (this encyclical is, after all, Leo’s development of Rerum novarum, not of Gaudium et spes), we can at least identify a few themes that shed light on Leo’s thought about the Church and its mission.
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley speak with Mary Kate Polanin, the executive editor of The Good Newsroom, the digital news outlet of the Archdiocese of New York. They discuss the important and changing role of diocesan communications, Catholics in the digital space and New York’s new archbishop.
In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss Pope Leo’s surprising and historic choice to lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication and dig into the advice “Magnifica Humanitas” offers to each of us when it comes to navigating our relationship with A.I. Plus: Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday—and Bad Bunny is hoping they cross paths.
https://www.americamagazine.org/podcasts/2026/06/04/the-archdiocese-of-new-yorks-good-news-strategy/
