Artificial Intelligence

Acutis AI co-founder explores 'Magnifica Humanitas,' Pope's call for digital disciples

Kimberley Heatherington · August 9, 2026

Artificial intelligence is quickly bringing about the end of the world as people know it — but Pope Leo XIV has an urgent message for everyone: Don't run from the change AI brings; instead, engage it.

Matthew Harvey Sanders on 'Magnifica Humanitas'

Catholic Register Staff · August 6, 2026

Excerpt from a series on the Archdiocese of Toronto website by Matthew Harvey Sanders, creator of Magisterium AI, and a guest for the Vatican launch of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas.

Refugee agencies explore AI benefits

Aim is to keep employees while expanding reach

Quinton Amundson · June 27, 2026

Catholic Crosscultural Services (CCS) in Toronto and Catholic Social Services (CSS) in Edmonton are among the Canadian Catholic immigrant and refugee agencies striving to determine how artificial intelligence can be deployed to support newcomers.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical issues a wakeup call

Time to advance God’s vision to counter threats to the common good

Michael R. Heinlein · June 5, 2026

It can be easy for Catholics to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Sometimes we can lose sight of the bigger global picture, get distracted from what matters most for humanity.

AI's choice: do we build Babel or Jerusalem?

Those in the know agree with the Pope: morality, dignity have key role to play in technology

Quinton Amundson · May 30, 2026

Matthew Harvey Sanders has long presaged the choice civilization must make between the golden path of artificial intelligence development leading to human flourishing and a dark road defined by existential dread and transhumanism.

Pope Leo urges world to ‘disarm’ AI

First encyclical tackles challenges of a new digital world

Josephine Peterson · May 27, 2026

Presenting the first encyclical of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence must be “disarmed,” urging governments, tech leaders and society to confront the rapidly growing technology before it weakens human relationships, critical thinking and peace itself.

Editorial

Lead us not into temptation...

May 26, 2026

Glen Weyl, the Princeton-Harvard-Microsoft whiz kid economist, has declared Pope Leo XIV “perhaps the single most important person in the world on AI at this moment.”

Pope Leo: AI, 'culture of power' make just war theory 'outdated,' demand new 'rigorous' constraints

Gina Christian · May 26, 2026

In his new encyclical on artificial intelligence, Pope Leo XIV took aim at the normalization of war, made more dangerous by a digital revolution that is "changing the nature of conflict" and blurring "the fine line between protection and aggression."

Anthropic's Christopher Olah urges global moral oversight of AI at Vatican presentation

Paulina Guzik · May 26, 2026

The May 25 speech of Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah at the presentation of the first encyclical of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV ended with a special request.

Pope Leo XIV tells Vatican press conference AI must be 'disarmed' for humanity's sake

Courtney Mares · May 26, 2026

Pope Leo XIV called for vigilance as he spoke at the Vatican press conference to present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, saying his conversations with industry leaders had led him to the conviction that AI "needs to be disarmed."