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Why Pope Leo’s A.I. encyclical is resonating with tech leaders, theologians and young Catholics
Anna Rowlands joined Colleen Dulle on America’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast to discuss the responses to Pope Leo’s now viral encyclical, its reception by the tech industry and its contributions to Catholic theology and social doctrine.
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‘Human dignity has no passport’: Pope Leo visits Gran Canaria
“We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” Pope Leo declared in a major speech on migration.
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Indigenous and church leaders hold meeting on ‘doctrine of discovery’ and its enduring harmful impact
‘I have thought of the ‘doctrine of discovery’ as gum underneath my shoes—wherever I go, it is there.’
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‘A shockwave through the system’: Pope Leo appoints EWTN president as communications prefect
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Leo’s surprising pick to lead Vatican communications.
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Pope Leo’s trip to Spain: Background on Sagrada Familia, migrant advocacy and a changing Catholic landscape
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain from June 6-12 will take the pontiff to Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands.
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As World Cup approaches, Pope Leo’s June prayer intention is for sport to foster peace
With the FIFA World Cup opening this month, Pope Leo XIV has dedicated his June prayer intention to the power of sport to build bridges between cultures and nations.
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Pope Leo appoints president of EWTN News as head of Vatican communications
Maria Montserrat Alvarado, a Mexican-American, will be the first lay woman to lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication.
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Where synodality shows up in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
In addition to all it offers us about human dignity in an A.I. age, the pope’s new encyclical also offers a synodal approach to authority that the world beyond the Catholic Church, hungry for a moral voice on this topic, will find compelling.
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Pope Leo on liturgy: Be open to reform, ‘respect the texts and norms’
Amid renewed tensions between the Vatican and traditionalist Catholics over the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Leo XIV defended Church reform as a legitimate process that adapts to current needs while remaining rooted in authentic tradition.