Digital Age
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The Smartphone has remade the papacy
Technology is transforming the papacy from a distant office into the Vatican in my top pocket.
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The vacuum where leaders should be
Politics and institutions are increasingly governed by risk management, not leadership. But real leadership requires imagination, courage and the willingness to challenge false stories. Of course, there are Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollahs, who run their worlds according to their own storyline. But none in any meaningful way serve democracies. But are…
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Knowledge without borders belongs to everyone
True progress isn’t measured by innovation alone, but by whether AI serves people with no leverage, voice, or seat at the table.
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Two hours-plus online daily tied to teen mental illness
For girls aged 12-13 heavy daily use was tied to around 11 extra cases of high depressive symptoms per 100 adolescents.
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The fight for attention — a fight for democracy
Power no longer lies in territory or capital. It lies in something more finite: human attention — and the war for it has begun.
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Being heard
In a saturated media landscape reaching beyond shrinking parishes means embracing fresh tools that carries the Message further.
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TikTok theology — garbage in, gospel out?
Attention is increasingly being recognised not as a private commodity, but as a strategic resource shaping democracy, public debate and social stability.
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God never waited for the perfect classroom
God did not solve human distance from the divine by sending better information. The prophets had tried that. God showed up instead — bodily, locally, among people who could touch him. Teaching theology well has always meant presence more than coverage.
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Calumny in the age of outrage
Social media has accelerated the spread of false accusations to a frightening degree. What once traveled slowly — a rumor at work, a whisper at dinner — can now destroy a reputation in seconds, long before the facts are known or any correction has a chance to catch up.
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Pope Leo started a conversation that Silicon Valley cannot ignore
Journalism and Innovation Professor Jeff Jarvis is clear: Pope Leo does not declare war on AI or technology. Those expecting papal condemnation will be disappointed. This encyclical is something rarer — a thoughtful framework for the long conversation ahead, intended not for this moment but for generations.
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