The first report contains recommendations on navigating the Church’s presence in digital spaces; the second focuses on guidelines for the formation of future priests and includes a call for more women to play a role.
Technology
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How Gen Z Catholicism is growing in the digital age
Catholicism can thrive in internet spaces where opinions are regularly challenged, examined and assessed by diverse audiences.
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Catholics need a digital temperance movement to combat online hate
A digital temperance movement would seek to eliminate from our lives all the addictive technologies and platforms that stoke our anger.
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Talking to Claude: Why Anthropic treats its chatbot like a person—and not a tool
Claude works like a person because it was trained on what people have done. Its greatest source of danger is that it could amplify the most dangerous parts of us.
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Pope Leo gives stark warning on AI: We must ‘safeguard ourselves.’
The challenge from A.I., the pope said, “is not technological, but anthropological. Safeguarding faces and voices ultimately means safeguarding ourselves.”
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A.I. chatbots cannot replace the community of church
Chatbots may offer a verse in the middle of the night, but their chief purpose must be to point people to the living community of the church.
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I can’t give up my phone. But I can work on doing one thing at a time.
My phone is like a needy infant that requires constant heightened attention, even when it is asleep; but unlike an infant, it never stops being hungry, and unlike an infant, it offers so very little compared to what it snatches away.
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Five lessons learned as director of the Vatican Observatory
After a delightful 10 years in the post, Sept. 19 is my official retirement date as the director of the Vatican. As I depart, I thought I would pass along a few words of advice based on my experience.
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Wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on Sunday
In recent years, Carlo Acutis has shot to near rock star-like fame among many young Catholics, generating a global following the likes of which the Catholic Church hasn’t seen in ages.
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Our Jesuit high school banned smartphones. Here’s why it needed to happen.
By removing phones from classrooms, hallways and community spaces, we are not rejecting the digital world but reclaiming something more fundamental: the capacity to learn, to relate and to be fully present.