Leo XIV’s namesake penned an encyclical, Rerum Novarum, that critiques both capitalism and socialism. However unprecedented certain aspects of Robert Prevost’s election to the papacy may be—he is, as ...

Among the reasons given for choosing his name, Pope Leo XIV referred to the encyclical Rerum Novarum by his predecessor Leo XIII, which has naturally drawn great attention to that famous encyclical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo warns about dangers of AI 03:22 Rome — Pope Leo XIV issued a major document Monday focused largely on the implications of ...

Editorial: In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate ...

With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV has signaled that he wants the church to respond to artificial intelligence much as a predecessor, Pope Leo ...

Last month was a very trying time for our country. Aside from a devastating earthquake, too much political upheaval rocked our government, and there was the Tacloban school shooting, Aurora drowning ...

That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of ...

May 20 (UPI) --Pope Leo XIV will release the first encyclical of his papacy next week, the Vatican announced Wednesday. Magnifica Humanitas will address artificial intelligence and human dignity. The ...

We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV and the co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic will launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25, a document on the care of human dignity in the era of AI, ...