Glen Argan

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) has been hailed as the first major papal pronouncement on artificial intelligence. It is that, but also much more.

Albertans will go to the polls on Oct. 19 to vote on various referenda, including one that asks whether we want to hold another referendum on separating from Canada.

In April 1975, Lionel Rosenblatt and Larry Craig Johnstone, both U.S. Foreign Service officers, flew from Washington, D.C. to Vietnam to organize the rescue of South Vietnamese citizens who had helped the foreign service during the Vietnam War.

As a writer and editor, I am fascinated by the human tendency to focus on the negative at the expense of the positive.

Much has been written about the blasphemous and ridiculous antics of Donald Trump in his critiques of Pope Leo. Trump has been condemned from pillar to post, as well he ought to be.

The Biblical story for our postmodern era is that of Jesus and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. We don’t know the nature of the new age we are entering, only that it is postmodern.

Over the past year, Prime Minister Mark Carney has become a politician. It is galling to see the former member of a parish social justice group so reserved about condemning an unprovoked war.

After Socrates was sentenced to death for teaching the young people of Athens to ask questions of their elders, his followers offered him various ways to escape drinking the hemlock. Socrates wouldn’t go along. He instead asked the question he had asked many times before, “Is it worse to suffer harm or to do harm to others?” He was unequivocal: you do more harm to yourself if you do evil than if you let someone else harm you.

On Jan. 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, Pope Leo XIV released the 60th annual message for World Communications Day, celebrated on the Solemnity of the Ascension.

Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century. Hildebrand’s central contribution to philosophy was his focus on the emotional life, human affectivity.