Facebook’s business model, built on monetizing human attention while outsourcing human judgment to algorithms, is a uniquely comprehensive and dangerous abdication of responsibility.
Many topics of great import were discussed at the meeting of the U.S. bishops. But they missed the mark on bingo, confession and whether cats possess prevenient grace.
Released late Nov. 9, the 18th annual report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection stated that 3,924 child sexual abuse survivors filed 4,228 allegations.
The proposed Build Back Better Act has much-needed provisions “uplifting the common good,” but unacceptably “expands taxpayer funding of abortion,” the chairmen of six U.S.C.C.B. committees said.
“The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them,” the pope said in his message for the Glasgow climate conference.
Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to live in his Metaverse. But as Catholics, our fundamental disposition toward the physical world is that it is precious and meaningful.