Science and Technology

The Vatican Observatory announced in an April 29 press release that an asteroid has been named in honour of Pope Leo XIII, who formally reestablished the observatory in 1891.

There is a growing commitment among Canadian Catholic health-care institutions to integrate artificial intelligence, robotics and other paradigm-shifting innovations to enhance patient care and streamline administrative functions.

As the astronauts of NASA's first crewed lunar flyby in half a century reached their closest approach to the moon, the team's pilot reminded the Earth of Jesus Christ's command to love both God and neighbour.

Blessed Trinity Parish is welcoming a cybersecurity specialist to help parishioners interested in harnessing AI’s unique benefits while staying ever-vigilant against its growing dangers.

It’s not lost on the Archdiocese of Toronto that various fraud attempts and scams are ever evolving and remain a constant threat to exploiting trust from staff and Catholic communities at large.

Artificial intelligence became so culturally ubiquitous over the past calendar year that Time magazine crowned these technologies mimicking human intelligence as the “2025 Person of the Year.”

Priest and bioethicist Fr. Michael Baggot, a prominent Catholic voice on artificial intelligence, urges more faithful to become active developers and ethical contributors in the field in 2026.

Travis Callaway, like many with such interests, eagerly awaits an expected encyclical from Pope Leo XIV on artificial intelligence.

“The danger isn’t that AI will suddenly wake up, it’s that we’ll forget that it hasn’t.”

Calgary Bishop William McGrattan said the Church cannot ignore the profound implications of the rapidly advancing technological revolution that is artificial intelligence.