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Today's Readings: Tue 26 May 2026
25+ min ago (276+ words) 13: 17 17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing. 18 Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored. 19 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from…...
Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat "anti-human vision" in AI
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (1487+ words) May 25, 2026 Hannah Brockhaus News Briefs 0 Print AI is not a morally neutral tool; It matters not only how it is used, but how it is designed, Leo writes in "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of…...
Full Text of Magnifica Humanitas: Read Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (295+ words) May 25, 2026 EWTN News Staff News Briefs 0 Print Pope Leo XIV signed Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate, on May 15, 2026. The document was released by the Holy See on May 25, 2026. The encyclical develops the Church's social teaching in light…...
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery
55+ min ago (30+ words) Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery. Leo's own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners....
Pope calls for robust regulation of Ai in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity
6+ min ago (141+ words) VATICAN CITY (AP) " Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from…...
Peru's Catholic Church holds a symbolic ceremony in apology for Indigenous land dispossession
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (571+ words) Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with people who alleged abuse by the Catholic lay group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae in Lima,…...
Pope Leo asks pardon for Holy See's complicitly in slavery | News Headlines
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (422+ words) Pope Leo XIV renewed the teaching Church's condemnation of slavery and asked pardon for the Holy See's complicity in the slave trade. In Magnifica Humanitas (CWN article)dated May 15 and released today Pope Leo deplored forms of slavery linked to…...
In Peru, Mass of reparation offered for suppressed lay movement's victims | News Headlines
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (172+ words) A Mass of reparation was offered in Catacaos, Peru, on May 23 for victims of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (Sodality of Christian Life), a lay movement suppressed by Pope Francis last year. Vatican News reported that the Mass was offered for…...
Pope Leo XIV apologizes for Catholic Church's role in legitimizing slavery
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (429+ words) The historic apology acknowledges how the Catholic Church's highest authority helped give European powers religious cover to subjugate and enslave non-Christians. Pope Leo XIV is making history with an apology that goes further than past papal statements on slavery. The…...
Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (1108+ words) (ABC) " Pope Leo XIV'called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war....