It is fair to question whether an institution with critical governance failures of its own is well positioned to advise on regulating technology, but a close reading of the encyclical shows that Leo understands these failures.
Robert Hurley
Robert Hurley is professor of management at Fordham University. In research published in 2026 in The Journal of Business Ethics, with co-authors Branko Božič and Dionysis Dionysiou, he argues that the church’s child sexual abuse crisis was, at its core, a failure of governance rooted in impediments to organizational learning.