Social Justice
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The poor don’t debate climate change — they survive it
The poor do not discuss climate change in conference halls. They encounter it at noon, under a tin roof, on a construction site, beside a dry hand pump, in a field where the soil has turned to powder, or in a flooded lane where schoolbooks float like dead birds. For them, climate change is not…
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Racism speaks — Church and World must listen
Structural racism, papal apology, and one priest’s story converge to ask the Church to listen without defensiveness or excuse.
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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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Service, not imposition: the church’s place in public life
Leo insists the church respects political autonomy, affirming separation of church and state andrejects Christian nationalism outright.
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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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Inside the Vatican-Anthropic alliance on AI ethics
Anthropic’s outreach to Catholic voices began with an email introducing an atheist tech founder to a moral theologian. What followed were months of deepening conversations about how centuries of religious wisdom might help shape the behavior of an artificial intelligence model.
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Questions about AI are really religious questions
Every new technology carries an implicit vision of what it means to be human. That makes the deepest questions about AI fundamentally religious ones – even if much of the developed world would prefer the Church stayed silent on matters of profit and progress.
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Shrinking God to fit inside our borders
Pentecost refutes religious nationalism that makes God reliably sympathetic to one culture’s anxieties. The Spirit crossed every boundary human beings had declared permanent, fluent in every tongue that power had dismissed, authorised by no government, and contained by no border.
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Being counter-cultural or just being awkward
From the women’s movement to immigrant rights, faith often finds itself at odds with society in ways that require ensuring these tensions are rooted in justice rather than fear of social change.
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World leaders need more than summits — they need synodality
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stark warning at Davos about a rupture in the world order has renewed the question of whether world leaders need a new framework — something deeper than summits and UN resolutions — to address a world in crisis.
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